I'm impatiently waiting for the Star Wars fandom to realise just how much Lucas borrowed from Arab culture and Islam in general
Like really? Jedi? JEDI???
Did he think we wouldn't notice the play on the Arabic word Al-Jeddi??
Al-Jeddi, which means 'master of the mystic warrior way?'
Or the fact that Admiral Ackbar's name is Ackbar (means the greatest in Arabic)
Or the fact that the Jedi robes were based off of North African Muslim Sufi robes they saw a lot of while they filmed in North Africa
Or the fact that the planet Mustafar comes from the Arabic name Mustafa, which means 'the chosen one', which is ironically where Anakin (the chosen one himself) had his ultimate showdown and later chose to live?
Or the fact that 'Tatooine' is literally just a city in Tunisia?
“You’re not going to wake up one day and be the ultimate Muslim. Set daily goals for yourself, push yourself everyday. If you pray all your Fardh start praying your sunnah if you have been reading Quran make it your goal to read one page a day etc. Nothing is just going to come to you, you have try.”
One time I was cooking with a girl and we were both bilingual but we didn’t have a language in common so we were just sitting by the fire doing prep work quietly and I was peeling little garlic cloves to mince and she put her hand on my arm to stop me and demonstrated how you’re supposed to press on the clove with the flat side of your knife to break the shell off all at once to peel it and I was like oh! And I imitated her and she nodded in approval and we went back to quietly peeling and mincing the garlic and I don’t want to be hyperbolic but in that moment I was like wow I truly understand the universal thread of human love and connection inherent in our souls or whatever