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The Quran, verse 57:14

يُنَادُونَهُمْ أَلَمْ نَكُنْ مَعَكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَى وَلَكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنْتُمْ أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ وَارْتَبْتُمْ وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ حَتَّى جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ وَغَرَّكُمْ بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ

The hypocrites will call out to the faithful [on the Day of Judgment]: ‘Were we not on your side?’ They will reply, ‘Yes, but you gave in to temptation, you wavered and doubted and were deceived by your wishful thinking until God’s will was done, and the Deceiver [Satan] misled you about God.’

Source: elhamdallh, via IslamicArtDB

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

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26 Things Adults Do Who Have Experienced Childhood Emotional Abuse

[best-life-hacks-on]

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20 Life-Changing Books

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Listed below are twenty life-changing books. Unless you are determined to be miserable (which, strangely enough, some people are), these books will change your life for the better. Click on the titles to order a copy for yourself, then mark them up and put them into practice.

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A lot of people are good at what they do. Some are even elite. A select few are completely unstoppable. Those who are unstoppable are in their own world. They don’t compete with anyone but themselves. You never know what they will do — only that you will be forced to respond. Even though they don’t compete with you, they make you compete with them. 

Are you unstoppable? By the end of this post you will be. Let’s get started:

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الحمد لله

Alhamdulillah: All praise is due to God alone.

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What Desi mothers do for Fun?

“Koi pasand hai, tou bata dou..” 😁

[islamicrays]

“May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala reward our mothers tremendously for the hard work they do to raise us and even when their heart are shattered they still look after us. We can never repay to our mothers. May Allah help us to take care of them and be dutiful to our parents Ameen”

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[bowelflies]

godspeed you tiny emperors

[hashimkamalkhan]

‏کبھی مل تو تجھ کو بتائیں ہم

‏تجھے اسطرح سے ستائیں ہم

‏تیرا عشق تجھ سے چھین کر

‏تجھے مے پلا کے رلائیں ہم

‏تجھے درد دوں تو نہ سہہ سکے

‏تجھے دوں زباں تو نہ کہہ سکے

‏تجھے مشکلوں میں گہرا کے میں کوئی ایسا رستہ نکال دوں

‏تیرے درد کی میں دوا کروں کسی غرض کے میں سوا کروں

[just-shower-thoughts]

One of worst jokes life will play on you is meeting the right person at the wrong time

[salaf-us-saalih]

the wife 💕

different ways to refer to one’s wife in arabic.

taken from the Learn Arabic Telegram channel: https://t.me/learnfus7a

· ḥalīlatuhu — حَلِيلَتُهُ · qarīnatuhu (his companion) — قَرِينَتُهُ · ʿirsuhu (his bride) — عِرْسُهُ · libāsuhu (his garment) — لِبَاسُهُ · ʾizāruhu (his garment) - إِزَارُهُ · riqbatuhu (his noose) — رِقْبَتُهُ · baytuhu (his home) — بَيْتُهُ · firāshuhu (his bed) — فِرَاشُهُ · ḥāluhu (his state) — حَالُهُ · qaʿīdatuhu (the one he sits with) — قَعِيدَتُهُ · quʿādatuhu — قُعَادَتُهُ · qaʿīdatu baytihi (the one he sits with at home; home companion) — قَعِيدَةُ بَيْتِهِ · al-ḥawbah — الْحَوْبَةُ · ash-shāʿah — الشَّاعَةُ · ath-thirʿāmah — الثِّرْعَامَةُ · al-ḥudādah — الْحُدَادَةُ · ar-rubḍ — الرُّبْضُ · ar-rubuḍ — الرُّبُضُ · ar-rabḍ — الرَّبْضُ · ar-rabaḍ — الرَّبَضُ · al-miʿzabah — الْمِعْزَبَةُ · al-ʿāzibah — الْعَازِبَةُ · al-muʿazzibah — الْمُعَزَّبَةُ · al-jathal — الْجَثَلُ · biʿlur-rajul — بِعْلُ الرَّجُلِ · zawjur-rajul — زَوْجُ الرَّجُلِ · zawjatur-rajul — زَوْجَةُ الرَّجُلِ

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[believeroftheunseen]

Nobody is nearer to you than your Lord. - Shaykh Akram Nadwi حفظه الله #shaykhakramnadwi #Allah https://www.instagram.com/p/BcA8wq0Bi_8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b0vl63khvakj

[salaf-us-saalih]

The Advice of Umāmah Bint Al-Hārith to her Daughter Umm Iyyās on the Night of her Marriage

Umāmah Bint Al-Hārith said to her daughter when she being sent off to her husband:

My dear daughter, if advice were to be left off due to the refinement of one’s manners then you would be in no need of that. However, it is a reminder for the heedless and useful tool for the intelligent. If it were that a woman could go without a husband due to the wealth of her parents and their great need for her then you would be the least of the people in need for that. However, the women have been created for the men and the men for the women.

My dear daughter, you have left the environment from which you have sprouted and left the life which you have grown up in, going to a home that you do not know and a companion that you are unfamiliar with. He has become, by his authority over you, an overseer and a king. So be a slave to him and he will be a willing servant to you.

My dear daughter, take from me ten qualities and they will be for you an asset and a reminder:

Accompany him in contentment and be amicable with him by hearing and obeying.

Safeguard where his eyes land and safeguard what his nose smells, so that his eyes never see anything ugly from you and his nose never smells any repugnant odour.

Kohl is the best make-up and water (i.e., good hygiene) is the best perfume.

Safeguard his meal times and keep tranquil his sleep times. The heat of hunger is infuriating and deprivation of sleep is irritating.

Safeguard his home and his money and take good care of him, his relatives, and take care of his children.

Safeguarding his money is a sign of good judgement and taking care of his children and relatives is a sign of good management.

Don’t spread his secrets and don’t disobey his commands. If you spread his secrets you will not be safe of him lying to you and if you oppose his commands he will resent you.

Beware of displaying joy when he is upset and and sadness when he is happy. The first is irresponsible and the second is antagonistic.

The more you honor him the more veneration he will have for you; the more you are in agreement with him the longer your time will be with him.

And know, that you will not attain that which you want from him until you give preference to pleasing him over pleasing yourself and to his desire over your own in whether you like it or not.

And may Allāh give good to all.

Source: Bulūgh Al-Arb by Al-Alūsī 2/19 Translated by: Raha Batts (حفظه الله)

[babydaffodil]

good movies for rainy days or anytime you’d like:

- Before Sunrise (1995)

- Before Sunset (2004)

- Before Midnight (2013)

- Scream (1996)

- Closer (2004)

- The Notebook (2004)

- Donnie Darko (2001)

- The Goonies (1985)

- The Breakfast Club (1985)

- Point Break (1991)

- Top Gun (1986)

- Stand by Me (1986)

- Fight Club (1999)

- The Departed (2006)

- Cruel Intentions (1999)

- Pulp Fiction (1994)

- American Psycho (2000)

- Inception (2010)

- Sixteen Candles (1984)

- Submarine (2010)

- Clueless (1995)

- The Blue Lagoon (1980)

- American Beauty (1999)

- The Usual Suspects (1995)

- Romeo + Juliet (1996)

- Harry Potter series (2001-2011)

- Labyrinth (1986)

- The Parent Trap (1998)

- Seven (1995)

- The Craft (1996)

- Titanic (1997)

- Love Rosie (2014)

- Grease (1978)

- The Lost Boys (1987)

- Xanadu (1980)

- Mamma Mia! (2008)

- Heathers (1988)

- Dead Calm (1989)

- The Princess Bride (1987)

- Dirty Dancing (1987)

- Ferris Buellers Day Off (1986)

- Bring It On (2000)

- Leon: The Professional (1994)

- Shutter Island (2010)

- Tuck Everlasting (2002)

- Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)

- Pride and Prejudice (2005)

- Pretty Woman (1990)

- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)

- Keith (2008)

- Nocturnal Animals (2016)

- Oblivion (2013)

- Me, and Earl, and the dying girl (2015)

- Silence of the Lambs (1991)

- Red Dragon (2002)

- 10 things I Hate about you (1999)

- The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

- 500 Days of Summer (2009)

- My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

- The Sixth Sense (1999)

- The Villiage (2004)

- Indiana Jones series (1981-2008)

- Pocahontas (1995)

- Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

- Blade Runner (1982)

- Footloose (1984)

- The Basketball Diaries (1995)

- Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

- Vanilla Sky (2001)

- the Virgin Suicides (1999)

- Prisoners (2013)

- Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

- Brokeback Mountain (2005)

- Minority Report (2002)

- Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

- Spirited Away (2001)

- Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

- Alien (1979)

- Jaws (1975)

- Aquamarine (2006)

- Allied (2016)

- Palo Alto (2013)

- My Girl (1991)

- Interstellar (2014)

- Malibus Most Wanted (2003)

- Jamón Jamón (1992)

- Flatliners (1990)

- Pretty in Pink (1986)

- Dazed and Confused (1993)

- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

- The Secret of Moonacre (2008)

- Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983)

- When Harry met Sally (1989)

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

- Black Swan (2010)

- Call Me by Your Name (2017)

- The Dreamers (2003)

- Good Will Hunting (1997)

- Dead Poets Society (1989)

- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

- The Shining (1980)

- Trainspotting (1996)

- The Notebook (2004)

- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

- Mulan (1998)

- Narnia (2005)

- Dunkirk (2017)

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

- Breath (2017)

- Lady Bird (2017)

- Jane Eyre (2011)

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[tiny-librarian]

A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.

Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de'Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.

Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.

The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.

Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de'Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.

Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.

After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.

Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.

Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.

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[drst]

Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.

[explorerrowan]

Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”

[whatthefoucault]

It’s interesting the way the repaint has photoshop!Isabella affecting a slightly dreamy, docile gaze into the middle distance; she’s dewy-faced and unthreateningly soft.  But in the original, she’s looking you right in the eye.  She takes the male gaze and throws it right back at you.  That’s a face that says go on, tell me I’d be so pretty if only I had a little repaint, I dare you.  I’ll fuck you up.

[iunia-kallistrate]

They also made her hand smaller and I can’t tell if that’s an urn or scepter in her hand but considering it was painted out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a symbol of power.

[explorerrowan]

Oh, it’s a symbol of power alright. She’s a Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de Medici, First Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Medicis were the most powerful political family in Florence for almost forever. In Florence, the lines between politics, crime, warfare, and the Church were very blurry. They even managed, on four separate occasions, to get one of their own family members elected Pope, usually by very underhanded dealing with the cardinals. They had their fingers in every pie in Italy from 13th through 17th century.

In the case of Isabella, in order to secure an alliance with the Orsini family of Rome, she was married to Paolo Giordano I Orsini when she was 16. Contrary to popular belief, people in Renaissance Europe weren’t all that into child brides, this was just about the politics, so she stayed at her father’s household in Florence until she was of appropriate age. And then she just sort of… never left. Her new husband had zero concept of money, and her dad actually kinda hated him even though he was the one who arranged the marriage in the first place. So Isabella and her 50,000 scudi dowry (at a time when the average Italian earned somewhere between 10 and 40 scudi a year) stayed in Florence. Because she never went to Rome to live with her husband, she enjoyed enormous freedom and power back in Florence. After her mother died, she basically stepped into the role of First Lady of Florence, and was considered one of the keenest political minds in Europe. She ruled what she wanted, bought what she wanted, and fucked who she wanted, with no one really able to tell her no.

She was eventually assassinated by her husband while she was on holiday at one of her family’s country villas, probably because she was fucking her husband’s cousin, Troilo Orsini. Well, she had an “accident” while bathing, and Paolo Orsini said she must have drowned, but the coroner said she was strangled, and several servants swore they saw him do it. He might also have done it on the orders of Isabella’s brother, Francesco Medici, since he was trying to consolidate his power as the next Grand Duke, and by all accounts she was definitely in his way because of her political savvy.

So yeah. She was a boss, and that’s what makes it even more offensive that this Victorian sap tried to make her into this passive, skinny, doe-eyed wimp.

[indi-dork]