March 2012
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o you who believe
look at us, my ummah,
we think we are so tall
but when one of us chooses to stand up and rise above the ignorance
and lies and oppression and apathy
we cut them down
we watch them fall
then measure ourselves again like fools
o you who believe
you will not grow by God’s grace with your rashness,
but rather he will hide his face in shame at his creation
while they...
What the Quran burnings tell us || Foreign Policy →
almaswithinalmas:
Suppose the town or city where you live had a bunch of heavily-armed foreign soldiers living nearby. As part of their normal duties, they sent patrols down your street with some frequency, bristling with guns and other instruments of war. Imagine that these soldiers were from a very different culture and nearly all of them did not speak your native language, although they...
The Beauty of Islam: "because Allah created women... →
thalamtnafsee:
…contrary to misogynistic and patriarchal belief, no, Allah didn’t. And also contrary to standard belief, Islam does not preach this. No where in the given Quranic text does God lower and dehumanize the standard of a woman. That, I am sure of.
My father never hesitates to…
“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.”
– Paulo Coelho (via thesebeautifuleditions)
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salads are not meals.
i’m eating a giant salad that has lots of stuff in and yummy balsamic vinaigrette, but holy crap, I WANT SOME SAMOSAS SO BAD
why do they not have samosas in the dining hall or pod marketplace?
sigh
February 2012
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i just want to talk in rihanna’s accent for the rest of the night and dance to her music.
OH NA NA NA
MY LIFE IS SO HARD
OY YE YE YE YE
what is happening to me, need to finish work and sleep!
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“When you find a man
Who transforms
Every part of you
Into poetry,
Who...”
– Nizar Qabbani (via ab-du)
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“Ice-age heat wave, can’t complain. If the world’s at large, why...”
– modest mouse
