What’s In A Sound?

Quran | Reminders | Arabic | Quotes

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[redefining-silence]

Allah has not forgotten you,

you are in His care.

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“I can read you like a book and because the thing about a beloved book, if it’s a good one, is that it shifts like music; you think you know it, you’ve read it so many times, of course you know it, of course the pleasure of it is in how well you know it, but then you hear, in the background, the thing you never heard in it before, and with the turn of a page you see a combination of words you know you’ve never seen before, you thought you knew this book but it dazzles you with the different book it is, yet again, and not just that but the different person you have become, the different person you are now, reading it again, and you, my love, are an excellent book for me, and then us both together, which takes some talent with rhythm, but luckily we are quite talented at reading each other.”

— Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

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Devin Kelly, from “All the Other Dogs Screaming” 

[redefining-silence]

“The warmth still lingers today

from the comfort that left me yesterday.”

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May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

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Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "Four Lies I Unlearned," originally published in 2018

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— Lang Leav, from Sea of Strangers

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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But is is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I didn’t grow up with a language for, a way to explain, to parse out, my self-loathing. I grew up only with my part, my little throbbing stone of self-hate that I carried around with me to church, to school, to all those places in my life that worked, it seemed to me then, to affirm the idea that I was irreparably, fatally, wrong.”

— Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert

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love elizabeth s.

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‎Shaykh Ibn al-‘Uthaymīn رحمه الله said,

‎“When something tires and overpowers you say: ‘Laa Ḥawla Walaa Quwwata Illaa Billaah’, then Allāh will make it easy for you.”

‎[شرح رياض الصالحين ٥\٥٢٢]

[iamayeshaahmed]

Sometimes, what we wish for, seems far away only then the reality or the truth of being attached to Allah SWT is revealed. Some people leave off dua thinking that their request will never be fulfilled, or they leave off dua, thinking that their affliction or hardship will not be taken away. But who still keep making dua? It is the one who thinks well of Allah SWT. What does thinking well of Allah SWT mean? Thinking well of Allah SWT is first knowing that Allah is able to do all things, and then to know that Allah is the Most Merciful. So first, you have to know that Allah is able to do all things, because during a hardship, anyone who sees you will have mercy on you, so the issue here is not mercy, the issue is that this person cannot help you or alleviate your affliction. The key to thinking well of Allah is to know that nothing can stop Allah from doing what He wishes to be. 🤍