RaisinInTheSun

Bismillah. Forever open to new knowledge. On a quest to understanding. Born/Raised in the City of Angels. Grown in the Charm City. The name is Shawn. How do you do?

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Vintage Blog

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El Seed

[aajadav]

Kinna sohna tenu rab ne banaya

Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan (via aajadav)

Shoutout to my pops.

Inspired that NFAK love. 

Nice little wave of Nostalgia

[shawnali]

Life. 

You a trip.

Through & through.

[medicalschool]

The Human Brain

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That’s our self. That’s it.

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Selfie game: Anatomical

[shawnali]

The first time I held a human brain in Anatomy Lab I was completely speechless. I looked at my classmates expecting a similar reaction and they looked back at me confused like…“dude let’s start identifying the structures.” I had to take a step back and let it process…in my hands was someone’s entire life. From start to finish, every memory, every emotion, every bodily control…was right there in my hands. 

SubhanAllah, that day I remembered the words of my mom when she told me….“in your profession you will be working with the human body every day. When you’re in Anatomy lab identifying and working with the cadavers really look and behold the greatness of Allah. That body, those organs, the muscles, the bones, the nerves…all of that is from Allah. Only Allah can create that masterpiece you see in front of you. That’s not just a pile of flesh and bones, that’s Allah’s work.”

[shawnali]

From when I first posted this, the human brain has not ceased to amaze me. Still speechless at the marvel that is the human brain.

[shawnali]

I need your help. Please click the above link and 'like' the photograph. Please support this beautiful individual as she works with the Peace Corps overseas in Ethiopia. Visit her blog while you're at it! Www.bukhtawer.com

[shawnali]

I used to

Be so different. Life. Life has hardened me, my exterior and my interior. Should I fight it? Should I embrace it? I'm not quite sure but the smiles are less and that's a lose-lose in any book at any time in any place.

[beautyislam]

Remember mothers in your du’as, my mother, your mother, all mothers, they go through so much, may Allah swt grant them strength & an eternity of joy. Ameen ya Rabb💕

[tatreez]

When you’re washing up, pray. Be thankful that there are plates to be washed; that means there was food, that you fed someone, that you’ve lavished care on one or more people, that you cooked and laid the table. Imagine the millions of people at this moment who have absolutely nothing to wash up and no one for whom to lay the table.

Paulo Coelho (via tatreez)

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[bajn]

[shawnali]

Goals

[tsamthepoet]

Once you trust Him, doors will start opening up to you.

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If you are angry, be silent.

The Prophet ﷺ, Aḍab al-Mufraad No. 1320 (via bakwasbandkaro)

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There are three forms of patience: being patient when obeying God, being patient during times of calamities, and being patient when faced with sin.

Imam Ali (a), Mishkat al-Anwar #78 (via yaseeneducation)

[lovelydeen]

“God says: “You may have someone in your mind, someone in your heart, someone in your dreams, someone in your life, but I am your someone when you have no one.”

[shawnali]

Truth.