Bismillah al rahman al rahimAssalamu Alaykum.
My name is Anh-My.
My Islamic name is Muminah.
I am a revert to Islam, masha Allah
Rachel Corrie—“Leaving Olympia” from My Name is Rachel Corrie
We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree of aloneness. What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being afraid? What if our aloneness is what allows us to adventure-to experience the world as a dynamic presence-as a changeable, interactive thing?
If I lived in Bosnia or Rwanda or who knows where else, needless death wouldn’t be a distant symbol to me, it wouldn’t be a metaphor, it would be a reality.
And I have no right to this metaphor. But I use it to console myself. To give a fraction of meaning to something so enormous and needless.
This realization. This realization that I will live my life in this world where I have privileges.
I can’t cool boiling waters in Russia, I can’t be Picasso, I can’t be Jesus. I can’t save the planet single-handedly.
Twenty year old Lucille Ball in 1931.
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
Oh soul. You worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are, in truth, the soul of the soul of the soul.
~Rumi
This picture is so beautiful.I love everything about this picture.
(via lovelinguist)
Lips Visible Over Open Quran (Photo of Girl Reading Quran)From the Collection: Photos of Open Mushafs
The Spirit leaves the body
The spirit leaves the body
merely the thought of a breath
a last gentle touch
a brush in the boughs
before it fades away.
Where?
We do not know.
Duane Michals
Sura Fil (The Elephant)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(1) أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيلِ(2) أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ
(3) وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
(4) تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
(5) فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ
In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful
1. Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
2. Did He not cause their war to end in confusion?
3. And send down (to prey) upon them birds in flocks,
4. Casting against them stones of baked clay,
5. Thus He made them like straw eaten up.
The Story of the Companions of the Elephants:
http://www.maaref-foundation.com/english/library/quran/light/light_20/105/105_1-5.htm
tzilahjewishcultureandhistory:
i had to upload a photo set of these because they are too wonderful.
THIS IS JEWISH! :D
*chortling at exploding heads*
“But there’s no such thing as a Black Jew!”
Yes there is!
*edit*
AnthroGirl: The Photographer stated davening at a Black Jewish synagogue in New York when he was in college. He was part of a group that was helping shuls within walking distance of Washington Heights make minyans on shabbes. One shabbes, they were walking through the Bronx to a shul and made a wrong turn and ended up in front an older shul. Turns out it is one of the oldest Black Jewish shuls in the area, and he started going there for on shabbes mornings . He said it was wonderful. Very orthodox, using an Italian nusach I think, and really lovely people. I’m trying to look up the name right now…
Okay, I think the shul he went to was Mt. Horeb E.H. Congregation.
Close to 15 years later he still holds it in high regards.*/edit*
Have added this interesting piece of background information by AnthroGirl. Thanks for adding it! :-)
The Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam said: “Recite the Qur’an, for on the Day of Resurrection it will come as an intercessor for those who recite it. Recite two bright ones, Surah Al-Baqarah and Aali-Imran, for, on the Day of Resurrection they will come as two clouds, or two shades, or two…
![tzilahjewishcultureandhistory:
Young Ethiopian-Jewish Oleh
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tzilahjewishcultureandhistory:
Young Ethiopian-Jewish Oleh
Source: [x]
