My Lord, I Seek Refuge In You From The Decline Of Your Blessings, The Loss Of Good Health, The Sudden

Heart is connected to the face!

‎Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:

‎ “What is in the heart from light and darkness, good and bad, a lot of it flows to the face and the eye, and they are the greatest things connected to the heart.

‎ That is why it is narrated on the authority of Uthman رضي الله عنه, that he said: “No one is hid his secrets except Allah reveals it on the pages of his face and the slips of his tongue.”

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Tawakkul is more than just trust; it's a deep reliance on Allah, believing that He is the best of planners.

In every difficulty, know that He has a plan for you, one that is filled with wisdom and mercy.

Embrace tawakkul, and let your heart find tranquility in His divine care.

got me good with this whole email address thing. you make email account as child for one purpose neopets.com and now all this. bait and switch. not nice.

Allah(SWT) says:

“The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakah and obey Allah and His Messenger. Those – Allah will have mercy on them. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.”

Just the thought that you need to be a better Muslim shows that light still exists in your heart

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

genuinely the idea that not caring about the lives of fellow human beings makes you more rational is far more widespread than it should be. if you never bother to learn cognitive empathy your own life will be worse anyway. and while some people see cognitive empathy as a default, I believe that's not true. "out of touch" would not exist as a concept if everyone had adequate cognitive empathy to navigate relationships and life in general. just #thoughts

"The problem with the singularity is that once we are in the upper quadrant, i.e., once we have gone through the horizon and are 'inside the black hole,' we can't avoid eventually hitting it. Indeed, it is not really a place. As already discussed last lecture, it is really, in a sense, a time. We can avoid an obstacle in space--we go around it--but we cannot avoid 'hitting the future.' We can escape from things, even from freedom, but not from the future."

-Leonard Susskind, General Relativity (2023)

*becomes everything I dreamed of when I was little and almost doesn’t notice*