Close-Up  (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک‎) | Dir. Abbas Kiarostami

There’s a brother who says

والى الله ترجع الأمور Wa ilal-lāhi turja'ul umoor And to Allah returns all affairs

When someone would hurt him or try to have a meaningless argument with him

A habit I picked up as well

cannot sleep too busy thinking of scenarios

When you open your palms and say “ya Rab”, are you aware of who you’ve just addressed? Do you realise that there is no plea you could follow that up with which would be greater than Him? No want, no need. Nothing. He dwarfs them all. Dua is your door to that might and mercy.

“and advise each other to be patient and advise one another to be merciful.”

-Al Qur’aan {90:17}

“Oh Abu Dharr! Don’t look at the smallness of the sin but look at the One you disobeyed.”

— Prophet Muhammad (S)’s advice to Abu Dharr al-Ghaffari [ Makarim al Akhlaq, Chapter 12, Section 5, Page 458]

Thinking well about Allāh is a part of excellent worship of Allāh.

The Prophet ﷺ, Jāmi’ at-Tirmidhī #3970

– View on Path.

Simple pleasures

i am listening to 5 year olds in gaza beg for ceasefires and talk about the warplanes and drones and carry language no one should carry but especially no one so small. they should be sitting in classrooms reading fables, solving silly word problems but the world decided they were born guilty, from a guilty womb, from guilty blood. and people on the other side of a wall and the other side of the world cheered on their death. i want no part in that world, i reject every politician, every news anchor, every celebrity. i reject their movies, their music, their UN work, their empty calls for peace. i want no part in this machine of death. i want no part and can no longer desire anything from life except for the people of palestine, sudan, congo, yemen, and a hundred other places to never have the murderous reach of western imperialism near them ever again.