The Beautiful You

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Embraces Oil on panels, 6 x 6", 2019

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The roses of Heliogabalus (detail) 1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema

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ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb said:

Don’t let your love be blind, and don’t let hatred consume you.

When you love someone, do not lose all sense of reason, for hearts may change.

And when you hate, do not go to extremes, for situations may reverse.

Don’t sacrifice your values trying to please everyone. People change — those who once shared light with you may later not even lift a finger to help.

And even if reconciliation feels hard, still look for a way to make peace — for hearts and times do change.

Those who were once close and then drifted apart might one day return as friends.

So don’t burn every bridge — you may need to cross it again.

And don’t build walls too high — you may someday need to climb them back.

Reported by Imam Bukhari in Adab Al-Mufrad (hadith 1325)

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“But who has not sipped from death's nectar? For death lives where life blooms wholly. The people who are not courageous enough, spend their lives in the bitter stale of its root and never live long enough to witness the colour of its petals.”

—wordsintheattic, Anish KC

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Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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Rabī’ bin Khuthaym رحمه الله said to his companions:

“Do you know the disease, the cure, and the recovery?”

They said: “No.”

He said: “The disease is sin, the cure is seeking forgiveness from Allah, and the [pathway to] recovery is to repent and then not repeat it.”

[Bughyat At-Talab: 3/469]

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“Sadness departs with a prostration (sajdah). Happiness comes with a sincere supplication (du’ā). Allāh does not forget the good you do, nor does He forget the good you did to others and the pain you relieved them from. Nor will He forget the eye which was about to cry but you made it laugh. Live your life with this principle: be good even if you do not receive good; not because of other’s sake but because Allāh loves the good-doers.””

— Ibn Al Qayyim Rahimahullah

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Bab’Aziz (Nacer Khemir, 2005)

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It is not simply losing my imaan, it is more than that…

It is as if my soul and heart no longer speak to each other

As if my heart has been stripped from my body, and can no longer find it’s way home.

I dread the nights my heart is detached and the walk home is way too long

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Julian Klincewicz - Double Magazine 49