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All praise be to God, Who responds to me whenever I pray to Him, even though I am slow to respond when He calls on me; On Whom I depend on and seek help from, for if I were to depend on anyone else, they would certainly disappoint me;

All praise be to God, Who seeks my friendship while He certainly has no need for me; Who shows gentleness and love towards me as if I have not sinned, though He is fully aware of my shameful deeds.

How could I not sing His praises and recite His glorification! He Who has been ever Merciful towards me!

— Du'a ʾAbū Ḥamza al-Thumālī (دعاء أبي حمزة الثمالي)

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Quran

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Every night during the holy month of Ramadhan, God, the Blessed and the Exalted, calls out three times: “Is there anyone who seeks from Me so that I may grant them their wish? Is there anyone who returns to Me in repentance so that I may turn to them in Mercy? Is there anyone who seeks forgiveness from Me so that I may forgive them?”

— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Mustadrak al-Wasaail, vol. 7, pg. 429

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“We send down in the Qur'ān, that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe.”

— 17:82

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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “A Night Shared in a Memory of Escape”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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“Pray for whoever crosses your mind. Honor the guests of your heart.”

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أنا من تدُورُ الحربُ فيِ نفسيِ، أنا من تمسكتُ بِطرفِ الأمل حِين كُدتُ أن أهزم، حين كُدت أن أُهدم. و أنا من خُسِِر و كُسِر، و ذلك هو كان مكسبي. أناَ من تعلمَ أني أنا فيِ حربِ النفسِ لا أنهدِم و لا أنهزِم. حربٌِ طرفيهاّ أنا، لا اموتُ فيها، بل أعيشُ مِنها و لي. و حييتُ ليِ.

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“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.”

— - Franz Kafka

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“To ‘listen’ another’s soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another.”

— Douglas Steere, On Listening to Another 

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Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani

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يا مُنجّي، نَجِّهِم، نَحنُ الّذين لا حِيلة لنا، والحَوْل والقوَّة كُلّهَا لك، يَا رَب.

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لأني لم اؤمن ابدا بالوقت، ولأني اعود دائماً لأشتاق للحظات مضت، وذكريات تلاشت، ومشاعر انطفئت، ووعود نُكست، ونسخ قديمة من أشخاص ضلوا الطريق الذي رسمناه سوياً.

Because I never believed in time, and i always miss past moments, faded memories, burnt-out feelings, broken promises and old versions of people who went astray from the roads we drew together.

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Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself

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Setting Sun (1913), Egon Schiele / Jeff Davis County Blues, The Mountain Goats

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Like ships..

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

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الحلم جي كلاس و الواقع سوزوكي

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always forgive and sleep with a clean heart.