Boycott Israeli Dates this Ramadan, from Call 2 Action Now, 28/Feb/2024: (caption under images)
This Ramadan, don’t break your fast with an Israeli date. Stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has now killed tens of thousands. Palestinians, facing down Israel’s catastrophic violence, call on us to boycott Israeli products in solidarity with their struggle for freedom.
Follow this quick guide to boycotting Israeli dates:
• Always check the label when buying dates. Don’t buy dates that are produced or packaged in Israel or its West Bank settlements. If no country of origin can be found on the box, check the retailer’s website.
• One of Israel’s largest exporters is called Hadiklaim. It sells dates in supermarkets under these names: King Solomon, Jordan River and Jordan River Bio-Top, as well as under the labels of supermarket chains. Check the box carefully, if the dates were “exported by Hadiklaim” – don’t buy them.
• Avoid these companies: Mehadrin, MTex, Edom, Carmel Agrexco, and Arava
#checkthelabel is not enough. Israel has been caught labelling their dates as ‘produce of Palestine’. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, M&S, Morrison, Aldi, Lidl and Asda package Israeli dates under their own labels!
Buy dates from Zaytoun, Alard, Yaffa, and Holy Land Date all support Palestinian Farmers. If you cannot get hold of these brands then buy dates from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, UAE and Algeria.
[Book Review] 💡THE PRODUCTIVE MUSLIM (VERSI BAHASA MELAYU)💡
“Ingatlah, kita tidak dilahirkan untuk menjadi penyabar, tetapi kesabaran dibina melalui masa.” - muka surat 53.
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🧮 SKOR: 4.0/5.0
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■ Buku ini diterjemahkan dengan sangat baik. Formal? Ya. Tapi tak kekok langsung. Seperti layaknya buku-buku ilmiah. Struktur isi kandungan disusun dengan baik bersama-sama illustrasi dan diagram yang sangat menarik. Dan yang pasti, amat berguna. Comprehensive and impactful.
Kita boleh tahu yang si penulis ini, seorang Motivational Speaker yang karismatik, berpengetahuan luas dalam bidang beliau dan petah berpidato.
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■ Buku ini sesuai bagi mereka yang mahu mengaplikasikan konsep sedia ada dengan didikan Islam, begitu juga sebaliknya. Juga, untuk mereka yang masih tertanya-tanya adakah atau bagaimana gaya hidup masa kini sesuai dengan Islam.
Topik- topik yang dibincangkan berkait rapat dengan issues in the western world. Teknik-teknik dang langkah-langkah yng dikongsikan pastinya, inshaAllah sesuai untuk diaplikasikan oleh individu daripada seluruh lapisan masayrakat, boleh dilakukan baik untuk Muslim mahupun nonmuslim. Cuma , mungkin untuk sesetengah orang, perlu orang yang lebih memahami baca, kemudian baru ajarkan ke mereka yang memerlukan tunjuk ajar.
Daripada hadis yang dikongsikan, penulis cuba menerangkan kembali dengan mengkiaskan isi hadis kepada situasi hari ini agar lebih mudah difahami orang ramai, inshaAllah.
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■ In my opinion, this book can be a textbook on its own. A subject in a particular course. Perhaps counselling, general psychology or social study courses?
I am impressed with the way the author processes, applied and conveyed Islamic teachings into concepts that can be understood and comprehended well by most people, inshaAllah. He keeps reminding us to include Allah in everything we do and think of. Our daily hustles.
The discussions shared fit well with the modern lifestyle. This is highly appreciated because it is not easy to do, SubhanAllah. Very motivating and convincing. Allahumma barik!
im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.
biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)
the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.
democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.
My tongue is divided into two
into heavy accent bits of confusion
into miracles and accidents
saying things that hurt the heart
drowning in a language that lives, jumps, translates.
― from My Tongue is Divided into Two by Quique Aviles
i did indeed use a pink prayer rug for my background (someone in the community gave it away and we took it) and those two perfume roll-ons i got from Morocco last summer where we stayed with our extended family.
pls forgive my terrible arabic handwriting pls
doing so much (mentally) better today.
finally found use for a notebook ive been too afraid to use!! i've had it for around four years and each time i tried to use it id mess up the first page then leave it alone. but this time i have a plan, ill be using it to record all the dua's and beneficial words i want to learn, sort of like a common place book.
looking for dark academia/bookblr/studyblr accounts run by muslims to follow pls interact if you'd like us to follow each other xx
i’ve strayed off a little in the past few days. i’m still learning that it’s okay to make mistakes and be human, and rely on people during such times. alhamdulillah, i have come far in just one year, and i have met people who i can turn to.
sometimes, you just need a pat on the back and to hear that things get better, and that you can do it. so, here you go;
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Some days are monotonous, others bring many emotions.
This 48 days productivity challenge made me take so many pictures and track not only my studies but also my thoughts and feelings. I tried journaling before but I found it hard to put everything in words. So pictures DO speak louder than words. That's another reason to love tumblr <3
Just took a walking tour in Barcelona and saw the Hebrew-engraved bricks that were used to build the palace of the viceroy of Catalonia after Barcelona's Jewish Quarter was attacked, thousands of Jews were murdered, and the bricks that made up a Jewish cemetery were stolen to use in this palace. These bricks are now surrounded by modern-day graffiti that says "fuck Israel" (in English) and "boicot Israel."
I'm not writing this as a defense of Israel's current military actions. This is just a simple snapshot of why I can't ever feel the endless anti-Israel barrage coming from Europe is done in good faith, and why we should self-reflect on our own obsession with Israel and learn about how our ancestors' history intermingles with antisemitism. To imagine that we get to be free from these prejudices and act in a totally unbiased way when we talk about Israel is madness.
It's pissing me off actually and I search the word hijab on their account and in one of their tweets they said "I think hijab is a bad thing" ??? I need non-muslims who speak on Islam without any knowledge to stfu
i'm going to apologize beforehand if this is upsetting in any way bc i'm sure you were expecting a different response but while i feel like op's wording could have been better in this thread specifically—i like their wording in this thread more—i do generally agree with them. i definitely understand there's a gut reaction to any critique of islamic practices esp in the context of modern orientalism and islamophobic sentiment, but i also think that muslims (and people of any religious faith, really) can simultaneously acknowledge that some criticisms of faith, while driven by racism and/or xenophobia, are also validly driven by a worthwhile contention with women's material circumstances over the course of history. in the other thread i linked above i think op is very much correct in that it's not constructive nor useful to criticize individual people. many individuals do choose to dress more modestly of their own volition and are privileged enough to have that available to them as a choice and nothing more bc of the environment they grow up in and the familial interpretation of religious tenets they're taught. but i don't think people are wrong when they acknowledge the larger context within which women are advised to dress modestly and how those standards of modest dress compare with those imposed on men in comparison. there's an undeniable dichotomy there and at least in my islamic upbringing i've been taught that the way some of these things diverge along the lines of gender is preordained and not meant to be perceived as inherently oppressive towards one gender or the other. a thing is simply bc it is. but religion isn't really something you can view within a vacuum much as that would be ideal. it is connected to the material circumstances of women in the real world and i do allow myself to sit with that reality even if it's weird to process at times bc i still consider myself a muslim and have no plans on ex-communicating myself
personally i like to dress modestly in the sense that i don't wear very exposing clothing. i've grown up wearing pants for my entire life. my parents are lax enough that i'm allowed to wear t-shirts but i can't wear anything where my armpits are directly exposed so that means no sleeveless tops. i can't wear anything with a deep neckline either unless i have a higher positioned undershirt on underneath. and again, i'm not particularly bothered by any of that. i do toe the line on a few occasions but generally i'm ok with how i dress bc by now i'm used to it. that being said, i know the reason i've come to be okay with dressing this way is bc it's how i was taught to dress, and towards the specific end of maintaining modesty and emphasizing on the shape of my figure as minimally as is possible without having to outright wear a bag lol. that is at large a structural reality of muslim practice towards women, regardless of what individual women choose to do in their own homes where they have the liberty to choose. and as i mentioned above, i do think we have to sit with that reality even if we acknowledge it opens us up to abuse by other people who may not have the best intentions. this is why, for example, i've really come to frown upon the way ex-muslims (esp when they're women) are almost mocked by the extant muslim community for logically reacting to patriarchal oppression under the guise of religion. bc at the outset, materially, there is no choice presented to these people. and even if there is ideologically a choice within the tenets of the religion itself, with respect to women in particular, there is still a defined gender dichotomy and hierarchy that cannot be denied and that is quite regularly used to perpetuate the oppression that many of them try to escape
what's hard to do and what requires a knowledgeable, concerted effort on our part as muslims is trying to balance the nuance of the oppression we are accessory to against the nuance of our own oppression for who we are. it's certainly cruel that we have to do so much to parse all of this because racist, xenophobic imperialists are incorrigible people who will co-opt anything if it's beneficial to them. but all the same, we do have that responsibility at minimum. we have to learn to sit in the uncomfortable reality that while many of us as individuals may choose to practice the way we do, that choice may yet be colored by how we grew up within organized religion, and it obscures our ability to recognize that while we think it's a choice for us as individuals, it's certainly not a choice on a structural level, and that's something we should vehemently argue against maintaining the status quo of
Your competition is your procrastination. Your ego. The unhealthy food you're consuming, the knowledge you neglect. The negative behavior you're nurturing & your lack of creativity. Compete against that.
The fun thing about the Muslims and Christians fasting at the same time (They have Ramadan and we have to fast for a month or so before Easter) is that we can start eating at 3pm (because we start at 12pm) and they can start at 6pm (they start at 6am)
What does that mean??
It means the second our fast ends we will immediately start eating in their face. And the second their fast ends they bring in the chocolate and kaak and all the foods with milk and meat in them.
Don't worry, it's all in good spirits. Nobody gets tempted enough to break their fast early. But during Jonah's fast Rodi ate bake rols and mango juice in front of me on purpose by golly I will be getting back at her.