The Thoughts of a Muslimah @mayflowrs - Tumblr Blog

when you see someone from high school and they don’t recognize you that’s the exact opposite of the mortifying ordeal of being known. the gratifying relief of being forgotten

mayflowrs

It's happened at Target. Why doesn't anyone just say hi.

there was once a blogger by the name Damiyar? any idea where he is now?

I'm hardly ever on here... I don't think I know anyone by that name.

Like, I'd love to fulfill a good fashion sense and always look good at the grocery store but I just don't have that kind of money like the rest of the fashion gurus.

#thoughts #islamic fashion #fashion #money

As Salam mualaikum sister. I haven't seen your tumblr in 3 years and was pleasantly surprised to see you are still here! Alhamdulillah. May ALLAH bless you and your family. Keep up the excellent blogging!

Wa alaikum asalaam. Thank you anon and ameen. I'm not as active as before but I come on every once in a while. Didn't know I still have interested followers

If our hijab is used as “fashion” and popularized only by mainstream standards, then this makes it a temporary style just like any other. But it isn’t. The hijab will continue to be worn whether or not it’s used as some fad on ads. It will be worn whether or not it’s seen as beautiful. It will be worn whether or not we are praised for it. It will be worn whether or not it’s seen as civilized. Once a trend passes people won’t go back on it, and this isn’t the case for our hijab.

#hijab #islam #feminism

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withadreamandasong

heartsnmagic

wakeners

The world may appear in order, but it is far from it. The people suffer from short term memory loss and the leaders know the people very well. This is why it’s all very chaotic to the sound minds. We neatly compartmentalize what they tell us and we don’t open any any doors in between the walls they've built . And, what’s worse, we think what we see on TV is all there is to see.

Maybe big brother really is running the show.

#thoughts

Remember when everyone used to be passive aggressive on here and everyone took it personally?

I'm so glad I don't see a lot of people anymore. I have my own life to deal with and I can't imagine being involved in someone else's.

#personal

cityhopper2

Inside the Umayyad Mosque, November 2005, Damascus, Syria

photography by cityhopper2

did-you-know

As WWII escalated, Lamarr was motivated to find a way to steer torpedoes by remote control using changing radio frequencies, which she called “frequency hopping,” so that the transmissions could not be jammed by enemies.

She donated her patent to the U.S. government, but the Navy rejected her designs, convinced the mechanisms would be too large to fit into a torpedo.

They responded with, “You should go raise money for the war. That’s what you should be doing instead of this silly inventing,” (which she did, raising war bonds by the millions). So she silently watched her invention become a reality under the credit of others and never made a dime from it.

Over 50 years after her original patent, Hedy did FINALLY get some acknowledgment - even a few awards - but she didn’t show up to accept them. By then, botched plastic surgery made her very reclusive. She died alone in Florida at the age of 86. Her obituaries began with her beauty and made only brief references to the invention she had hoped would prove her mind was beautiful, too.