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Allah has power over everything. He has the power to make the impossible possible for you. He has the power to change your tears into tears of joy. He has the power to show you miracles that you can't imagine. He has the whole universe in His control and your existence is small. If He can control everything in the universe, He surely has control of your every affair. And remember Allah is the best disposer of affairs. So believe in Allah wholeheartedly. Your duas will be accepted, He will command 'Kun' BE and IT WILL BE. What if your Dua gets accepted in a way that will leave you amazed. If you're walking with tawakkul and love of Allah in your heart, He will grant you ease and happiness. Things can happen unexpectedly. Whatever you're going through, with time it will all make sense. Don't lose hope. There was hope even in the belly of whale. So don't think there's no hope for you. Trust Allah's timing because it will be beautiful on its time. 🤍

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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Love Letter, Hate Letter.” Red Suitcase

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🇵🇸 Children in war zones have played for 75 years under military occupation, yet some argue Israel has the right to defend itself while Palestinians can't even have their own army. Growing up in injustice breeds resistance. IDF's actions amount to genocide—cutting off food, water, and electricity. Those who support this have blood on their hands, like those who supported Germans in the 1930s.

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On the Pulse of Morning By Maya Angelou

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“There is a subtle meaning here, for alongside His name "the Loving (al-Wadood)" He mentions His name *the Oft-Forgiving (al-Ghafoor)". So as to indicate that if the sinners repent to Allah and turn to Him, He will forgive their sins and love them, so that it cannot be said that He will forgive their sins but love will not be restored to them, as some erroneously suggested.

Rather Allah rejoices over the repentance of His slave when he repents, more than a man rejoices over his camel on which is his food and drink and all that he needs on his journey, which he loses in the rugged and dangerous wilderness, so he despairs of it and lies down in the shade of a tree to await death, then whilst he is in that state, his mount appears at his head, so he seizes its reins. Allah rejoices more over the repentance of His slave than this man rejoices over his mount, and this is a great joy that cannot be surpassed.

To Allah be praise and pure love; how great is His kindness and goodness, how abundant His grace and favour.”

-Tafsir Al-Sa’di

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‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.

Source: BBC

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What she called home was a fig tree leaning against the wall, fruit sweetening slow in summer heat.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, from Water & Salt; "Circling the Dome of the Sky"

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“It ends or it doesn’t. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn’t. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, It Ends or it Doesn’t

#we do not perish

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this morning the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a resolution calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel and the resolution passed. two Israeli border points opened for aid routes (they were supposedly open? lmao), Biden is calling for an immediate ceasefire, last night was the first without air attacks on Gaza.. the killing of seven foreign aid workers shook the world apparently, but oh god how late. the journey to recognising genocide for some seems to avoid acknowledging the humanity of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered

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عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ إِنْ عَلِمْتُ أَيُّ لَيْلَةٍ الْقَدْرِ مَا أَقُولُ فِيهَا؟ قَالَ: " قُولِي: اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعَفُ عَنِّي "

‘A'isha said she asked God’s messenger to tell her what prayers to say on lailat al-qadr if she knew which night it was, and he told her to say, “O God, Thou art forgiving and lovest forgiveness, so forgive me.”

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© da-da-sk

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"