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as i grow older and face the different challenges that come with each new stage of life, i realize more and more how essential acceptance is for complete mental and emotional healing. acceptance for the way you look. acceptance for your personality. acceptance for the past. acceptance for how you were treated and how you reacted. acceptance for how you were raised. acceptance for every ending. acceptance for your decisions in life. no regrets, anger, disappontment, or bitterness; just a heart full of acceptance for God’s decree.

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source: @soulflowrss

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Today I caught myself using the same words my mom always used while scolding my brother and I already make noodles the way she made, I hum slow tunes like her and part my hair in the middle- the way she always did and now I finally understand how we all become our mothers in the end.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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They ask you about the life of this world, so say:

‎ويسألونك عن الحياة قل:

‎هي بجمال يوسف وحزن أبيه و غدر إخوته

‎It contains the beauty of Yusuf;

‎the sorrow of his father;

‎and the treachery of his brothers.

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hey Muslim girls under 18

You’re still young, and you don’t know, so you should know.

Don’t trust guys who compliment you incessantly, who woo you and flirt heavily. Don’t follow back the guy who liked all your pics, who called you hot, who asks you for more pictures or to meet up. He’s in it for himself. He wants you to reciprocate.

If you are young and he wants you to give something up of yourself - your time, your efforts, your trust, something sacred to you, he’s in it for himself. If he wants you to go behind your parents’ backs, he’s in it for himself.

If he is for himself, he is automatically against you. If he is against morality, and respect, and trust, and building things up the right way, he is against you. That’s not love. That’s disrespectful.

One of my favorite blogs said something along these lines: True love is sacrificial. LOVE IS SACRIFICIAL. It seeks to give, and not to take. The guy who gives up his time, his efforts, who spends time praying about and for you, who takes the time and trust to meet your family, he is in it for you.

No guy who truly likes you and wants you will ever go against the will of God to have you. Period. He will tread lightly and carefully, no matter his emotions, and even if they’re strong, the last thing he would want is for you to be accountable for bad acts.

Keep this in mind. You’re still young. Attention is always warranted. But the greatest thing you can be right now, at this age, is untouchable. The girl people are scared to approach, the one who commands respect just by being. The girl who worked really hard and is super smart and has the brightest of futures ahead. Don’t be eager for attention. Don’t accept attention from just anybody. Do your own thing. Hustle. Be loud and yourself and vibrant and dynamic. But don’t do it for a guy, and certainly don’t ever let a guy disrespect you.

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dil se jo baat nikaltī hai asar rakhtī hai

potent is the sigh that leaves the wounded heart

par nahīñ tāqat-e-parvāz magar rakhtī hai

though not endowed with wings, yet it soars wide and far

Quds-i-ul-asal hai rifat pey nazar rakhtī hai

spiritual and true in its essence, to heaven’s realm it does dart

khaak se uthtī hai, gardooñ pe guzar rakhtī hai

rising from lowly dust, it reaches the highest star

Ishq tha fitñā gar-o-sarkash-o-chalaak mirā

keen, defiant and impatient was my passion crazed

Asmaañ cheer gaya nala-e-bebaak mirā

yet it managed to pierce through the skies, my audacious wail

Iqbal // Javab-e-shikwa

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Always make dua. Even if you think everything has been decided and nothing can be done. We are incapable of understanding how Allah handles our matters and a sincere dua goes a long way.

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some tabs have been open on my phone for literally 2 years they r like brothers to me

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One of the most painful things in life can be growth. When you grow from being someone’s child to being someone else’s partner. When you grow from being just yourself to becoming someone’s parent. When you grow from being a parent to your child to seeing your child with their partner. Marriage and parenthood are both blessings, and with every blessing there are tests. Each transition can be a painful one, but with time things begin to make sense. So give yourself and others time .

-Taimiyyah Zubair.

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

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one of my favourite things about tumblr is how it's all lovingly handpicked. there's no algorithm forcing things onto your feed, but instead long chains of mutuals and followers passing posts around simply because they liked it and ooh, maybe you might like it too. the entire website runs on people's sheer love of other people's posts and it's probably the best thing about this website. at least it's definitely the reason that this place feels more like a community than any other social media.

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one of the saddest parts of growing up is realising that you and you siblings will never live together in one house again

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Allah has placed the world beneath your feet, why then do you carry it on your back?

The sea didn’t claim the life of baby Musa despite him being thrown inside when he was at his weakest, whereas the very same sea claimed the life of the Pharaoh despite him crossing it when he was at his very strongest.

Whoever is with Allah, his weakness will not harm him, and whoever is distant from Allah, his strength will not benefit him.

Expecting the best from Allah is a secret ingredient to happiness.

So .. فَمَا ظَنُّكُمْ بِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

“What then is your thought about the Lord of the worlds?”

(Al-Qur’an, Surah 37, Ayah 87)

[sh. Ali Hammuda]

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