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إِلَهِي غَارَت النُّجُوْمُ، وَنَامَت العُيُوْنُ وَغَلَّقَت المُلُوْكُ أَبْوَابَهَا، وَبَابُكَ مَفْتُوْحٌ، وَخَلا كُلُ حَبِيْبٍ بِحَبِيْبِهِ، وَهَذَا مَقَامِي بَيْنَ يَدَيْك

“O Allah, the stars have vanished, the eyes have slept, the kings have locked their doors, and Your door remains open. Every lover has found privacy with their beloved, and here I am standing before You.”

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A nation led by Muhammed ﷺ, will not surrender.

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Hi, i hope this finds you in the best of imaan and health. i hope you feel better, i hope you look back at yourself sometime later and realize how much of a gem you are. i hope life treats you better. i hope Allah unburdens all this weight and throws it deep into the ocean where you’ll never find it. i am rooting for you. i love you, so much. whenever you feel unloved just know that there is a stranger somewhere far away from you that loves you so much and is rooting for you, waiting to see you bloom. You make me happy and i hope someday somehow i make you happy too. you deserve all the good things in life and i hope they find you. i love you, stay safe and again, I LOVE U. 💗💗💗

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[julaibib]

Tarawih prayer from Masjid al-Haram

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Being delayed is a blessing, it happens so that you could be better prepared for what's to come.

It's a blessing when an expected deadline isn't met.

To settle down. To make your first million. To get in the university. To become a parent.

It's a blessing that things didn't happen sooner than you'd expect.

Delays are "downtimes" for you to utilise so that you could be better prepared.

Because ultimately God wants you to know that it is not by what you do, but by what He says - that love, mercy, and abundance enter into your life.

And failure is part of your training

Loneliness is part of your training

Rejection is part of your training

Disappointment is part of your training

You can't learn to walk without tripping

Tripping is what teaches you how to walk.

You can't learn how to love without disappointments.

You can't learn gratitude without loss. You can't learn to appreciate abundance without lack. And you can't learn companionship without lonely nights.

Delays can be painful. But they certainly are blessings through and through. Keep the faith while waiting.

[islamicrays]

“When we get ‪married‬, let’s say the average age is 25, we have already spent 25 years with our parents. We’ve lived a certain way and there’s a certain system in the house. But suddenly we are in a new home, and we expect our ‪‎spouses‬ to follow the same system that we were used to, behaving the same way that we saw our parents behave with each other. That expectation is impossible because 25 years is a long time to create a culture, and it’s unfair to expect our spouses to adapt to us within 6 months to a year of marriage. O Allah make us see the beauty of our spouses so that we are blinded to their imperfections, and blinded to the beauty of other people (so that we don’t compare our spouses).”

— Shaykh Ahmed Saad

[what-iz-life]

Gaslighting is when they repeatedly trigger your nervous system and mental health, then blame you for how you react, yet never accept accountability, or discuss their disrespect.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

when ingmar bergman said “if your tooth hurts, your tongue keeps going there. you’re always conscious of a wound”

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This image illustrates a number of things. Whichever stage you are in your life life and however you define the “end result” is subjective but in every scenario, these hadith’s come to mind:

1) Whoever travels a path in search of knowledge, Allāh will make easy for him a path to paradise (Muslim 2699)

2) If Allāh intends goodness for someone, he gives them understanding of the religion (Bukhari 71)

3) Indeed, the cure for ignorance is to ask questions (Sunan Abu Dawud 336)

4) Two greedy ones never attain satisfaction: he who is greedy for knowledge can never get enough of it, and he who is greedy for worldly goods can never get enough of them (Mishkat al Masabih 260)

5) “Know that the first deception of the Devil is that he discourages and dissuades people from seeking knowledge. This is because knowledge is light, and so if he extinguishes their light he can address them in darkness whichever way he wants." - Ibn Jawzi (rh)

[lilmamabeyellin]

[mindofserenity]

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@ anon, really sorry you had to go through that, It must have been traumatising. Understand that this was probably a test and Allah loves whom He tests the most. I pray your faith did not deter as a consequence of scummy behaviour. This type of behaviour is often the case when it comes to tourist destinations and these people are often desperate as tourism is at its lowest due to the Ukraine and Russia war, they depend heavily on Tourism to get by with majority of the target population bring Russians and Ukrainians. It was unfortunate that you were a victim of this but qadr Allah, there is wisdom behind everything, try not to be disheartened and allow it to be a story you tell your children one day lol

I went to both Hurghada and Sharm in the space of 4 months. These are tourist hot spots so we went knowing not to expect much. If we didn’t have our little one with us, we would have visited Cairo and Luxor which are places filled with culture and Islamic values but had to make do with a resort holiday as my son is 2 years old.  

My experience was fine alhamdulilla however, I feel like with coastal areas of Egypt, they have a Western clientele, we defo stood out like sore thumbs be it with the Westerners or even the local people. The amount of stares we got, especially when my husband wore a thobe lol. There were times we were questioning how Islamic this country was supposed to be but again, we understood this isn’t the true essence of Egypt as we were in a tourist location. 

My husband has a medium beard and is quite big. They often mistook him for being Egyptian and because we cannot speak Arabic, some thought we were lying / acting suspicious. Our taxi was searched often when travelling and we usually hired bedouin taxi drivers because no one would go to them due to how “Muslim” they looked. We found that bedouins were people we could hold an actual conversation with and were helpful, hardworking and honest people. When we tipped them, they were shy to accept. 

Next time, we will visit Cairo inshaaAllah. 

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We will never be deprived of goodness by a Lord who laughs

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yay you’re back! How’s Ramadaan going 4 you?

lol not for long, I hardly use Tumblr nowadays. Alhamdulillah Ramadhan is going well, working from home really helps! I pray yours is going well also :)

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One of my favourite photographs I took whilst I was in Egypt

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Returned from Egypt not long ago, absolutely loved visiting the masjids - the architecture is incredible!