Zairawasim

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[zairawasim]

You return to me. So often. So frequent. Sadness. You’re my companion.

The one that knows the way home without needing directions.

You arrive on time, always. Faithfully.

Somedays, you are a visitor who overstays.

One day you arrive.

One day you leave.

And through every visit and every farewell

I remain.

[stillnaomi]

unless you want to teach small kids about a laundry list of sex acts, they're not going to even recognise many acts of CSA as sexual in nature. instead, we need to have children who are raised with an expectation of bodily autonomy and who feel comfortable complaining when they're made or asked to do things they don't feel comfortable with. we need children to have the expectation that those complaints will be taken seriously and that they'll receive backup to make sure situations like that don't continue. if their desires for bodily autonomy are consistently ignored, how can we expect them to speak out when something confusing and uncomfortable happens with their parent, cousin, or babysitter? we've already taught them that what they feel comfortable with doesn't matter

[zairawasim]

Perhaps someday, one day

all that you strive towards today, will work out.

And after all this waiting, life may finally begin to soften.

Even what you wished for in silence, will be granted.

And perhaps comfort will arrive so quietly that you will begin to mistake it for entitlement.

You will live inside an answered prayer and call it ordinary.

Maybe, in finally receiving it all, you will become complacent.

And maybe worst of all, ungrateful.

What once felt impossible

will slowly become invisble.

You will forget the weight of the prayers that once bent your back.

And you will lose sight of the nights you pleaded for relief from things nobody else could see.

What you painfully endured would become distant a memory

You may become oblivious to how desperately you once wanted the life that now sits quietly in your hands

And that is perhaps the strangest tragedy of the human heart:

not that it suffers,

but that it adapts even to miracles.

So if that day ever comes, or has come

And if your hands finally hold what they once trembled asking for,

return, at least for a moment,

stay to remember the distance

between the prayed and the answered

-zaira

[post-grammatic-stress]

If you've ever told a person who's had to be bedbound for a period of time that you wish you could "just stay in bed", DO IT.

Stay in bed. For days. But don't get up if someone needs you to, or you get bored, or you get antsy. Don't do anything other than rest. Just lie in your bed, whether you need to get stuff done around the house or socialize or anything else "productive". You'll have to cancel on people, you'll disappoint them, they won't understand.

And if you're thinking, "well, i CAN'T just be in bed. There's stuff that has to be done - I have plans", maybe ask yourself why you assumed a disabled person doesn't have plans or things to do or desires.

[zairawasim]

“Creativity is partly a matter of association of ideas.”

– Jean-Claude Ellena, Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[miracle-vine]

“If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.”

— The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

[zairawasim]

"When one is enabled to do perform many acts of worship and obedience such as night prayers, fasting, charitable spending, providing for his family, being generous and abstaining for forbidden matters, he should not be deceived by his good deeds. Despite his many good deeds and many acts of obedience, he should not be deluded by any of that. He should always remain fearful.

This fear – coupled with knowledge and with an abundance of good deeds – is a sign of eman and truthfulness, just as our Lord said while describing the complete believers:

وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَا آتَوا وَّقُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ رَاجِعُونَ

Those who give what they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord. [23:60]...... cont/..

This is like what al-Hasan al-Basri said:

A believer brings together both good deeds and fear, while a munafiq brings together bad deeds and a feeling of security. A believer does good and fears; he does not do good and become deluded. Rather, he does good and fears, and he remains fearful even while hoping for Allah’s rewards. -Shaykh Abdur Razzaq al Badr / Explanation of Tafsir Ayaat min al-Qur’an al-Kareem lesson

[crehate]

bart mulder

[zairawasim]

The objective of engaging with the Qur'an is to understand its meanings and act accordingly. If this isn't the goal of the person memorizing it, then he is not a person of knowledge and virtue.

— Ibn Taymiyyah | ajmu al-Fatawa 23/55]

[zairawasim]

There is an almost unconscious cruelty in women who have adapted too well. They demand that others suffer as they did, to prove it was all worth something.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

[zairawasim]

اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِي الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشَاءُ

O Allah, Owner of all dominion, You give authority and power to whom You will,

وَتَنْزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشَاءُ

and You remove authority from whom You will.

⸻

وَتُعِزُّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ

You grant honor to whom You will,

وَتُذِلُّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ

and You humble whom You will.

⸻

بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ

All good is in Your Hand.

إِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

Indeed, You have power over all things.

⸻

رَحْمَنَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَرَحِيمَهُمَا

O Most Merciful of this world and the Hereafter,

تُعْطِيهِمَا مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتَمْنَعُ مِنْهُمَا مَنْ تَشَاءُ

You grant their blessings to whom You will, and withhold them from whom You will.

⸻

ارْحَمْنِي رَحْمَةً تُغْنِينِي بِهَا عَنْ رَحْمَةِ مَنْ سِوَاكَ

Have mercy upon me with a mercy that makes me independent of the mercy of anyone besides You.

[zairawasim]

اللَّهُمَّ اقْسِمْ لَنَا مِنْ خَشْيَتِكَ مَا يَحُولُ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ مَعَاصِيكَ

O Allah, portion for us such fear of You that it comes between us and disobedience to You

وَمِنْ طَاعَتِكَ مَا تُبَلِّغُنَا بِهِ جَنَّتَكَ

And grant us such obedience to You that will lead us to Your Paradise.

وَمِنَ الْيَقِينِ مَا تُهَوِّنُ بِهِ عَلَيْنَا مُصِيبَاتِ الدُّنْيَا

And grant us such certainty (yaqīn) that the hardships of this world become easy for us.

وَمَتِّعْنَا بِأَسْمَاعِنَا وَأَبْصَارِنَا وَقُوَّاتِنَا مَا أَحْيَيْتَنَا

And grant us enjoyment of our hearing, our sight, and our strength for as long as You keep us alive.

وَاجْعَلْهُ الْوَارِثَ مِنَّا

And let them remain with us until the end of our lives (i.e., make them last as long as we live).

وَاجْعَلْ ثَأْرَنَا عَلَى مَنْ ظَلَمَنَا

And grant us justice against those who wrong us.

وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى مَنْ عَادَانَا

And give us victory over those who show hostility toward us.

وَلَا تَجْعَلْ مُصِيبَتَنَا فِي دِينِنَا

And do not make our calamity in our religion

وَلَا تَجْعَلِ الدُّنْيَا أَكْبَرَ هَمِّنَا وَلَا مَبْلَغَ عِلْمِنَا

And do not make this world our greatest concern or the limit of our knowledge.

وَلَا تُسَلِّطْ عَلَيْنَا مَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُنَا

And do not place over us those who will show us no mercy.

[zairawasim]

O you who have believed, avoid much negative assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.

—Qur’an | Surah Hujuraat v 12

[zairawasim]

“Indeed, the trial of the believer is like medicine for him.” 1

“For were it not that He, Glorified is He, treats His servants with the medicines of tribulations and trials, they would transgress, commit oppression, and become insolent.” 2

—Ibn al Qayyim رحمه الله // Ighāthat al-Lahfān (2/188) 1 Zād al-Maʿād (4/195) 2

[shanastoryteller]

wish there was a non rude way to be like “I understand your criticism, I don’t even necessarily disagree with it, but I am doing these things on purpose, because I like them and I want to, and therefore your opinion has no value, because you might think me painting a room entirely pink is tacky, but I did it on purpose”

[unyanizedcatboys]

[skateboards-wheels]

[id: the above post, with all words blacked out but “i understand your criticism, but i did it on purpose” /end id]

[zairawasim]

Those who do good will have the finest reward and (even) more. Neither gloom nor disgrace will cover their faces. It is they who will be the residents of Paradise. They will be there forever.

—Qur’an 10:26