Path to Madina

"The saint knows that the spiritual path is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved has just made such a fantastic move that the saint is now continually tripping over with joy and bursting out in Laughter saying, “I surrender!” Whereas, my dear,I am afraid you still think you have a thousand serious moves.”

[bloodfathers]

And to parents… it is your absolute responsibility, especially to your daughters, to compliment them. It’s not wrong of you to tell them ‘you are beautiful.’ You should tell them they’re beautiful. Because if they don’t hear that from you, they’re going to look to hear that from somebody else. Our girls have low self-esteem because nobody validates them — especially the fathers. The fathers, you have to go out of your way to compliment your daughters. And stop having the attitude that nothing they do is good enough. Stop talking down to them, it’s killing them. It’s killing them. In our deen we always talk about the rights of the parents, and they have rights. But they have responsibilities, too.

Nouman Ali Khan  (via milksheikh)

[thebeautyofislam]

Source: https://www.instagram.com/ibtasempoetry

[hobs-birb]

[kazooie]

I had never thought about this, America is scary.

[reverend-spines]

this is wild, i cant imagine anyone approaching a police officer after getting pulled over

[mashable]

What South Africans had to look at every day for four decades.

[xxrie]

“You cannot claim ancestry from a country you murdered your way into.” - Nayyirah Waheed

[feministwomenofcolor]

Why Charlize Theron and her peers will never be African. ^ - K

[mystic-fauna]

They really have some fucking nerve.

[partytilfajr]

Salam! Welcome back. What do you do if you've grown up in a religious household to good parents and went to Islamic school and memorized Quran and your entire family are great Muslims and you love your deen but you've been thru some stuff and you're 20 now and it's been eight months since you last prayed and you're part terrified because you never imagined you'd get here and part...apathetic? And terrified that you're apathetic and questioning everything now. I don't know who I am anymore, Osama

Wa alykum as-salaam!

It’s easy to not pray. Just like it’s easy to not brush your teeth. It’s annoying sometimes.

How do you feel in the morning though?  How about after a week of not brushing your teeth?

Kinda gross?

I don’t know what your questions are, but, they’ll probably pass and they’re probably on my index page @ partytilfajr.tumblr.com/index

The point is: think of it like the gym. you don’t work out for a while, you try and go back to full press, you’ll hurt your muscles or whatever.

Come back, slowly. But don’t let your “OMG QUESTIONSSSSSSS” be your excuse. That’s an excuse you use so you can put it off. That’s what questions do.

You think other Prophets didn’t have questions? You think Yunus (Jonah) when he was sitting in the whale, at the bottom of the ocean, he was just having a fun tymez?

It’s about recognition of your Lord even during those periods. It’s what will make you better.

As long as there is some sort of “study” that shows the benefits of eating green gummy bears on tuesdays, we’ll do it, but when it comes to our spiritual health we’re like “ehhhhhh.”

So, c’mon, you know what you need to do, but you tried to go from no praying, to praying 4250825 prayers. Then you got discouraged. And you’re like “oh no! more questionzzzzzzzzzz”

It was hard to go from no prayers to 5. Maybe you got to go to college, and you’re like “I’ve seen things mannnnnnn” No you haven’t. You went to college. Wow, partiez are so LIFE CHANGING (they’re not) and that (girl/boy) isn’t that interesting, and they didn’t change your life, they’re as embarrassing as those clothes you wore when you were first allowed to dress yourself.

Just come back right and that means in a way that is sustainable.

Take care of yourself, insha Allah.

[en4mchoudhury]

Woe unto you Let the lover be! Why should I lower my gaze when even as I close my eyes, all I see is Layla.

The Constant Friend (via en4mchoudhury)

[poems-and-words]

[poems-and-words]

Book of the day: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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[spiritualinspiration2]

[simplyhasanah]

Alhamdulillah ‘ala kulli hal.

[biculturalist-deactivated201612]

I’ve noticed that Desi cultures do not promote open communication as a means to solve familial or relationship problems. Instead there’s an endemic need to keep things hushed if issues arise (as if words will make problems more real than they already are). Wives don’t talk to their husbands, husbands don’t talk to their wives, children don’t talk to their parents, nor do parents talk to their children. Everything is just supposed to be “figured out” silently, things are just supposed to “get better” without much acknowledgment. Wives in the neighborhood may confide in each other, husbands in the neighborhood may confide in each other, but rarely will both sit together in the same intimate space and express their thoughts, opinions, and rationales in order to come to a solution. Should this actually occur, the strangeness of the open communication may instead produce a backlash.

This especially affects us youth who are growing up in a world that is increasingly shifting away from the world our parents were born in. “Will they even understand?” is a fundamental question we ask when we think about approaching our parents about issues pertinent to our lives. Problems that Desi youth acknowledge now weren’t always acknowledged “back in the day,” so how is one to communicate with elders who have little concept of the struggles we face only because they were taught never to talk about it? And if we’re taught to be silent, how do we stop ourselves from perpetuating the tortuous cycle? One can only imagine how unbelievably saddening and suffocating this is. 

[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[bestblackgirlsxxx]

Beware The media is powerful.

[thespiritual-seeker]

The Devils Accomplice

After recent events in Orlando , an incident from the life of one of my inspirations, the great Egyptian scholar, Shaykh Muhammad Mitawally al- Sha'rawy came to mind.

Sheikh al-Sharawy said:

I once spoke with a young man who has a mind that was quite extreme, I asked him:

“Blowing up a nightclub or immoral place with people inside, is it halāl or harām?”

Young Man: “Of course halāl and permissible to kill them.”

Shaykh Sha'rawi: “If you kill them while they are disobeying God what will happen to them or where will they go?”

Young Man: “Of course they will go to hell.”

Shaykh Sha'rawi: “Where does the devil want to take them?”

Young Man: “Of course to hell, because it is the goal of the devil”

Shaykh Sha'rawi: “Then you and the devil cooperate in a goal, to take humans to the hellfire.”

Then Shaykh also reminded him of the Hadīth of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

When a corpse of an individual had past before him he stood up and cried, and the Sahāba around him asked

“What makes you weep O Messenger of Allāh?” He said: “Another soul has escaped from me and go to hell!”

Shaykh: “Can you see the difference between you and the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)? The want of guidance for all mankind and to save them from Hell, you are on one side and He صلى الله عليه وسلم was of the other!”

May God bless Shaykh Sha'rawi.

- Sīdī Mikhaael Mala

[sufisofsindh]

~Khwaja Fariduddin Attar

Excerpt taken from the book: Gems of Islam by C.R Jain (1940)

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

The Quran is like a friend…the longer the friendship lasts the more you’ll know of its secrets, as a friend doesn’t reveal his secrets to someone who sits with him for a few minutes and then leaves

Muhammad al-Awaji

Originally found on: beautifulsabr

(via islamic-art-and-quotes)

[wildeles]

Baby elephant drinking. When they are this young, they don’t yet know how to use their trunks to drink water.

[poems-and-words]

[thegreaterjihad]

But the reality is that our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would go up to the Cave of Hira to meditate for a few days with a limited amount of food for himself–to last him his trip, but he would never turn anyone away who came to him hungry. People would hear about this man in a cave and would come to take food from him, and he would never, ever turn them away, until his food was gone.

The reality is that a poor man went to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and asked for some sort of charity. And Prophet Mohammad had neither food or money, but told the man, “I have nothing to give to you right now. Go buy what you need in my name, and I’ll pay the debt.”

Prophet Mohammad continued to be kind and generous, even to people who treated him poorly–when he came home bleeding from his treatment in Taif, after people stoned him in the streets, and Angel Jibreel asked him if he wanted the city to be collapsed by mountains–and our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No. I pray for their children to be blessed with Islam.”

We complain so much about giving and giving and never receiving anything in return, but what did the Prophet ask for in return for everything he gave people? For everything he gave us? Nothing. Our faith teaches us to give and give and not have to expect something in return because everything is accounted, and everything is taken note of. 

Don’t ever feel upset or depleted by someone who has not reciprocated your kindness. By someone who ate your restaurant leftovers from the fridge. Or someone who has burdened you emotionally. The fruits of your labor and sacrifice will come to matter most on the Day that you need them to. 

[poems-and-words]