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songs-of-the-east · 6 months

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Lak Grandaughter. Dagestan, North Caucaus, Russia.

#russia #muslim #sunni muslims #islamic #russian #folklore #jewlery #caucaus #caucasian #lak #culture #lak people #laks #dagestan #dagestani #caucasian people

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luminalunii97 · 1 year

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The reason I post on Tumblr is that I'm trying to spread the news about the Iran revolution and my targeted audience is non-iranians around the world. It's a fact that people of different nations mostly know each other by nationalities and not subgroups and ethnicities. For example, I know people from China or Russia or Argentina as Chinese and Russians and Argentines, but I have very limited knowledge about the cultural and linguistic diversity within different countries. I know about some ethnic groups through media or documentary programs, and I know more about the people of neighboring countries because of proximity and common grounds, but you can't expect me to know the demographics of every country around the world, and in return, I don't expect citizens of other countries to know the details of existing ethnicities in Iran, a country that has been isolated and pushed out of pictures for decades. With all these said I like to give very basic information about the ethnic structure of Iran's population.

Ethnic map of Iran

Iran has always been a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-culture, and multi-lingual nation. Iranian is the nationality and not an ethnical or racial identity. Persians, Kurds, different branches of Turks, Balochs, Lurs, Arabs, Gilaks, Mazanis, etc, etc, are the racial or ethnic identities that have made Iran's body. These ethnic groups have their own language or dialect, their own culture and food, costumes and urban legends, and in some cases particular religion. This makes Iran a very colorful country, which obviously can be a place of wonder but also trouble.

Some of the Folk Costumes in Iran

The relations among these ethnicities and their relation with the capital and the ruling system through history is complicated and differs from region to region, dynasty to dynasty. As you might know, the country you know as Iran today is the remains of an old empire that has gone through many uprises and downfalls, wars and invasions, and rebordering. Here's a quick video of how Iran's borders have changed through history; got bigger, shrank in size, and moved east and west.

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The trouble with having so much variety within a country is the unpleasant manifestation of racism, favoritism, and discrimination. This problem has gotten a lot worse under the islamic republic regime. Even though favoritism and racism by the government have existed to different degrees in previous dynasties, the Islamic Republic took it to another level and since it's a theocracy, they added the element of religion stronger than ever to the discrimination mix.

Currently, in Iran, the uneven distribution of wealth and resources, and the government's neglect in many provinces and cities have made a huge gap between prosperity levels in crucial cities like tha capital, Tehran, and everywhere else. Tehran currently is the most populated city in western Asia. It's actually overpopulated, and this overpopulation is causing many environmental problems like air pollution in the city. The main reason is immigration because of the concentration of facilities and opportunities in the capital in contrast with non-existent facilities in other areas. Many people, including my family, have moved to Tehran, temporarily or permanently, to get a better chance at education or finding a job.

Apart from financial fairness, the islamic republic has been dead set on destroying ethnic identities in Iran. Banning the writing, reading, and learning of native languages at schools is one example. In many cities around the country, Persian is not the first language of daily communication. Persian as the official language is the mediator language that makes it possible for people from different regions to communicate. Different accents of Persian are the main and only language in many cities. Some cities are bilingual, but in others, Persian is like English in European countries, just a mediator, not the main native language. Almost everyone can understand and speak Persian, but native languages are the preferred language of daily life in cities with the majority of that ethnic population.

Another example is the restriction on wearing native clothes. In this one, the Islamic Republic hasn't been completely achieved, but they've been able to pale the usage or change the original form of most ethnic styles. For example, to make all the Iranian women uniformly dressed, they successfully changed the colorful veiling of Baloch women to a Black chador.

The original colorful clothing of Baloch women vs the black chador Islamic Republic has forced on them

Last but not least, based on religious beliefs, cities with the majority of non-shia muslim populations face discrimination times and times worse. Lots of Kurdish and Baloch cities have a majority of sunni muslim people. In the recent protests, the level of oppressing violence these cities have faced is far worse than in other states. Where in Tehran they shoot us mostly with shotguns, they only use battle rifles in Kurdistan and Zahedan. In only one day, Bloody Friday of Zahedan, they killed at least 96 Baloch people. Baloch people are also the first group of arrested protesters the regime has started executing. They're being murdered by the regime everyday now. These were only discriminations they're faced during the protests. A region with many metal mines like gold, and various industries is in so much poverty you'd think it's a war-struck place. Poverty, lack of clean drinking water, and identity paper restrictions are some of the examples of problems in Sistan and Baluchestan province.

In Kurdish cities the regime brought Tanks and DShK to suppress people, as if a foreign army has striked. People of Kurd never accepted the Islamic Republic regime and have been fighting its authority for decades now. Mahsa Amini, as you probably know by now, was from a Kurdish city named Saqez. The protests started in front of the hospital she passed away in, in Tehran, but it turned into full on revolution at her funeral, in her homeland, where Kurd women took their headscarves off and chanted "jîn, jîyan, azadî".

Fighting regional and racial discrimination in the free democratic future of Iran will be another obstacle our nation should deal with alongside women's rights, children's rights, LGBT rights, and working group rights.

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your-heart-is-a-treasure · 2 years

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Sayyidina Hussain - Prince of the 7 Heavens

Oh how valiantly Sayyidina Hussain fought, though outnumbered beyond sight, betrayed from the left to the right. But still the eyes and heart were submissive towards the Lord and His law.

The nobleman who became a legacy from Karbala till Yawm-al-Qiyamah. A shining example of the light of the luminance dispelling all illusions of the ignorants that were in darkness, just as clear as it turns from night to light.

Oh how he left the world to reunite, how bright was the flight of the one true knight.

Whom were those rejectors who began setting the fires and thought to fight, the worst of all creatures became the nobleman’s deniers.

The pure family blood became like gems and pearls scattered like how treasure is found and fought amongst those who know it’s worth.

You became the very reason the skies that year rained blood, just the thought of it makes one’s eyes flood.

How radiant was your countenance. The beauty that was kissed none other than the Rahmatalil-alamin (a mercy sent to all of creation), the finest of all, the best of all relations.

You are the mentor for every oppressed. The teacher for every depressed. The guider to every distressed.

Imam Hussain is the king of the martyred, the grand prince of this world and the holy prince of the Eternal seven Heavens.

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tareqbnyan · 2 years

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Dua For Good Health Recite 3 Times In The Morning And In The Evening

#dua #dualipa #dualipamusic #bestdua #dualeepa #dualipasongs #morningdua 2022 #dualipalyrics #dualipaofficialvideo #duaforrizq

#dua #seen #Islam #explore #sun nah #viral

#duaforwish

#seen #Islam #Muslim #DA wah #Sunni #sunni muslims #islam #muslim #allah #dawah #prophet muhammad #muhammad #jesus #mufti

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sleepynegress · 2 years

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I wanna keep talking about Kiki Layne's Met Gala look & *why* it's so brilliant....

*sigh*

This silhouette is not only a bunch of checkmarks for all the gilded age girl fashion staples: the color pink, the corset buttons, the opera gloves, the close to the neck -necklace, the heavy halo of hair framing her face... But what it subverts given Kiki's immaculate face card (honestly the best face there, argue with your momma) and her being emphatically black, not just by being a black woman, by how she is styled especially the fro!!!... See, there was this "feminine ideal" in the gilded age called The Gibson Girl:

As drawn by Charles Gibson in the 1890's which lasted up until WWI, this was the feminine ideal of the era... Pure, beautiful, etheral, the right class, perfect. ...and WHITE. One big signature is the huge pile of hair that formed a heavy halo on the head. Anne, in the 1985 Anne of Green Gables, reached for this look in the concert scene here (note the pink sash, flower in her big red hair, neck hugging pearls, frilly detailing empasizing the clavicle and shoulders, and opera gloves):

and other "Gibson" girls taking the hair to pretty big halos:

even the middle-class Booker T. black women of the era adhered to this:

I mentioned the fros were *also* of the era... the exoticifed ideal of the Circassian woman:

These women were exhibited in traveling shows and given exotified backstories of having been kidnapped and sold into white slavery... from the Caucasus Mountians region, in the country of Georgia and regions south of Russia in Europe. They were exotified as "perfection" in beauty and known for their afro-textured hair.... but again WHITE. Now, the stylist for Miss Layne said she specifically chose the Afro as a purposeful nod to blackness within the opulence of the gilded styling... but KNOWING ALL OF THE ABOVE, her look goes well beyond just that into the startlingly subversive. Again... Kiki is soft, she's princess pretty, she's pure, ethereal, she's feminine, delicate, all of those things usually ascribed to whiteness.... while checking off the gilded style reference points AND being a black woman. And as we know, when it comes to the rareity of black women being seen as soft...

*every.*

* thing.* from the delicate way she is holding herself in this style, -she's wearing it, it's *not* wearing her (posture immaculate, hands delicately crossed) to again... Just her BEAUTY and her BLACK beauty in that Halo of Afro hair... She just stomped all over that Gibson aesthetic and proved she can best that ideal with emphatic blackness....soft fro, perfect face card, and all... all while hitting the assignment pitch perfect. And that, my friends, is why I LOVE THIS LOOK.

#a much needed girly distraction...#meta #kiki layne #gibson girl #met gala #best dressed #she literally looks like a doll any girl would get stars in her eyes seeing #every black woman there #save for danai and kiki adhered to a more comfortable aesthetic i.e. not kinky and natural #and rahda blank also brought something interesting to the table... will be reblogging that soon #met gala 2022 #lizzo and kiki are my faves looks of that night fyi #I have to add the Circassian women were actually Sunni Muslim #but often the show would just used white women with treated hair to create the fro texture

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muslimahtradwiferevert · 4 months

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#convert to islam #islam #revert islam #freepalastine🇵🇸#islamophobia #muslim #sunni islam #welcome to islam #all women must veil!#burqa

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teenageascetic · 4 months

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“Take my shirt and lay it over my father's face: he will recover his sight. Then bring your whole family back to me.”

Surah Yusuf verse 93.

In different eras and places among Muslims talismanic shirts were worn under the regular robes of people to offer protection from Nazar and Sihr. It is believed that this tradition dates back to the prophet Yusuf (Joseph). One of the more famous practitioners of this tradition are the Ottomans, sultans such as Cem Sultan and Süleyman-ı Evvel wore them. This Quran verse is what inspired this.

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which-qsmp-egg-would · 29 days

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which egg would treat the masjid shoe racks as their own personal shoe store (because we cant wear shoes inside the masjid we put our shoes on a shoe rack outside the door and SOMETIMES you can get your shoes stolen, so its like a meme where ppl take pictures of the shoe racks and post them with the captions like "going shoe shopping")

Ramadan mubarak! (Sorry that this is so late in the season)

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uleeversly · 10 days

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Hello everyone

since a few days ago when Iran attacked Israel, I saw different positions on social media and society. Different thoughts and...everyone analyzed the situation from their own point of view, whether it is right or wrong. The most surprising thing was the stance of some Muslims and supporters of Palestine. If I gonna talk about what have been go on btw Iran and Israel, I will have to write for hours, but just know that the unity of the people of the world, especially Muslims, against Israel is Zionism's biggest fear, even many Jews no longer support Israel.

Zionism is the enemy of humanity, even if we don't have the possibility of a face-to-face war, let's support those who have this possibility, whether they are Shias, Sunnis or non-Muslims.

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ronnyraygun · 1 year

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Talia and Baby Jay dynamic make my brain giggle.

#talia al ghul fanart #Talia Al Ghul art #talia al ghul #jason todd fanart #jason todd art #jason todd #ron’s art tag #shut in the fuck up ron #that’s his mom 2.0 #he wants to be just like her #also before anyone gets pissy about the scarf #i am Muslim. she is not. she kILLS people. safe to say she doesn’t subscribe to the religion. she more than likely doesn’t wear a full hijab #or khimar #At best what she wears in GK is a shayla #but…she isn’t Muslim…and would probably look at you like you were stupid if you said she was #or Ra’s.#it’s sO fucked when I read fics where they are still assassins…and say “allahuakbar” or other Islamic phrases…because…it implies shit…😐#like coming fROM a Muslim…don’t do that shit. it’s weird and messy and just…gives the wrong vibes. if you didn’t know it’s chill just…don’t #them in Ramadan post’s because there aren’t enough Arab/Muslim characters is fine but…please don’t write them quoting scripture while…#actively fighting/killing people. it’s…yeah…no…bad vibes all around. super fucked for Sunnis and Shias. we don’t want that shit. I’m sorry.#the scarf is for sneek 100 use ONLY.#😭#but anyway he loves his mom. :))

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leroibobo · 5 months

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the church of saint george/al-khidr (saint george) mosque in lydda, palestine.

newer houses of worship taking the place of older ones on the same sites is a history common throughout the middle east and europe - what makes this one different is that it houses both the "older" and "newer" ones at once. the original structure was a crusader church built on top of the ruins of a byzantine one, and a ruined section in its west became a sunni mosque during the mamluk period. in the 19th century, orthodox melkites got permission from the ottomans to build the church in the eastern section.

the church's crypt contains a sarcophagus venerated as the symbolic tomb of saint george (last picture).

#palestine #architecture #interior #worship #christian #muslim #old & new #shared space #my posts #i know specifying that the mosque is sunni is pretty redundant given that almost all muslims not only in palestine but in the #literal geographical area are sunni but it felt weird specifying the christian denomination but not the muslim one #granted christianity has like 1000 denominations w/ very specific histories

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luminalunii97 · 1 year

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Eid Al Fitr Mubarak to everyone who celebrates it. It is especially Mubarak to the Sunni Muslims inside of Iran who have been the victims of many human rights violations done by the Islamic Republic regime. May the next Eid, all of us be free from this murderous regime.

#iran #mahsa amini #jina amini #iran protests #human rights #iran revolution #middle east #muslim world #sunni muslims #shia muslims #eid ul fitr #eid al fitr #ramadan

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apollos-olives · 2 months

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people who believe listening to music during ramadan is haram have no whimsy. no fun. you cannot experience joy, can you. you are all painfully sunni.

#disclaimer i am not shia or sunni #parents raised us as neither #but god. sunnis genuinely have no fun.#non muslims dni btw #not your discussion nor your business

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chillinaris · 1 year

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Nabi Muhammad tidak pernah mengatakan dia Sunni. Dia memberi kita adalah Sunnah. Dia tidak pernah mengatakan dia Syiah. Tapi melalui putrinya Fatimah dia memiliki Hussein dan Hassan.

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Mari berkumpul sebagai sebuah keluarga. Dan saling mencintai. Dan saling menghormati. Dan bekerja untuk kebaikan. Dan saling menopang dalam kebaikan.

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ibn-agim · 5 months

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Ibn Al Qayyim (رحمه الله تعالى) said,

"So strength, all strength is in the Tawakkul (Trust, Reliance) of Allah.

[Just] as some of the Salaf said,

"Whoever would like to be the strongest among the people, then let him trust in Allah."

[زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد ج٢ ص٣٣١]

#hadith #islam #quran #salafiyyah #islampost #muslim #sunni #salafi #salaf #narration #religion #sunnah

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wyllsravengard · 2 months

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idk what ramadan is gonna look like for me this year lol

#z.gen #i try to be more on my deen and i will do it this year #like hitting all of my prayers when i normally hit like 3/5 etc #no substances which fluctuates yearly since being calisober is what got me off other drugs but should be fine this yr #a lot of people wont listen to music either but i honestly dont listen to it much during the day regardless #having a very night time schedule is helpful during ramadan #i think im gonna try and focus on establishing all of my prayers #i dont really care to talk about my faith much cause its so genuinely no ones business #but i am muslim i just dont follow the practices of any of the four major sunni schools strongly for other reasons #im not shia either tho... looking #none of it matters rn cause i cant fast anyway LOL but its okay #its just like. kind of hard to celebrate islam with whats going on in palestine #like a lot of my fellow muslims get really obsessed w the aesthetics #but the month is about refraining from worldly desires and practing restraint and is generally anti consumerism #so its like. idk if i care for fun silly ramadan recipes. im gonna try to organize stuff with my mosque again inshallah

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