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Sheikh Khaled Nabhan 💔 Be at peace with Reem 🤲

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Hind Rajab's final Al-Fatihah.

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13-year-old Ameena Ghannam survived but her father and sister were crushed by the Israeli army tank while they were in their tin-roofed house. "We were sleeping and we heard the sound of tanks when they came and walked over the caravan in which I, my father, and my brothers lived. The tank squeezed us inside the tin all night until the morning, and when they took us out, I found that my father and my little sister had been killed."

Subconjunctival haemorrhages in both her eyes and visible petechiae - the result of being squeezed so severely her blood vessels burst.

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#withHandala

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Al-Shati...

I can't imagine spending my last breath watching my lifeless daughter beside me on the street...

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وَإِذَا ٱلنُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ ( ٧ ) وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ ( ٨ ) بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍۢ قُتِلَتْ ( ٩ )

and when the souls ˹and their bodies˺ are paired ˹once more˺ ( 7 ) and when baby girls, buried alive ( 8 ) are asked for what crime they were put to death ( 9 )

— At-Takwir (The "Folding")

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A girl trapped in suspension in between the rubble of her destroyed home in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

3.1.2024. I will immortalise their ascension, a one sketch a day attempt, as my duaa'. I am powerless to change the situation let alone alleviate it, but I will do what I can with my visual voice.

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From the river to the sea.

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"David and Goliath"

Some of you are trivialising the boycott: that it being seasonal, and it won't make a dent to the establishments that are funding the genocide, that the efforts are misplaced, etc.

Well, many of us are feeling angry and helpless over the wanton bloodshed. Boycotting It is the only way for us normies to participate in the jihad - we are unable to fight in the battlefield (we’re even cringing at the thought of being called to the PLKN), let alone contribute anything worthy of change to the plight of the Palestinians.

An-Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believers, in their mutual love, compassion, and sympathy are like a single body; if one of its organs suffers, the whole body will respond to it with sleeplessness and fever."

This is the only way we can influence change through the only language capitalism understands: money. Do you think the companies would go all out to explain their “neutral stance” if they’re not worried about what a personal social media post would impact on their business? At the very least, it is for our own conscience. Nevermind if it won’t so much as cause a ripple, but we are doing our part to the cause.

On the authority of Abu Sa`eed al-Khudree (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) say, “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.”

I also saw statements such as: “Well if you’re boycotting A,B, and C, why not boycott the rest of the X, Y, and Z?” That is like saying if you’re donating to a cause, why not give all your money then? Every one of us operates on varying capacities. We are doing what we can within our capabilities, no matter how small. Some participate in peaceful protests, others make videos to raise awareness, and I paint to express my stand.

Others are risking their lives documenting the horrors in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are losing their homes, lives, and their loved ones. Yet they can still say Alhamdulillah.

Did you know that mothers are having C-section, children being amputated, babies operated on without anaesthetics? There are women who have had their uterus removed to save their lives from postpartum bleeding.

Let’s stop criticising others who are doing their part in solidarity with generations of suffering, those affected by the sight of parents collecting body parts sprawling amongst the rubble, fathers cradling their babies with their heads split open from the bombings, mothers refusing to wash her hands from the blood of her martyred children she carried in her womb, and the children not knowing their fates being orphaned.

At least they are doing something to take a stand in the face of injustice.

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should not hurt his neighbour and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should serve his guest generously and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should speak what is good or keep silent."

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أطفال ❎ חמאס 🎯 חמאס:

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"Do not think ˹O Prophet˺ that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them until a Day when ˹their˺ eyes will stare in horror." — Ibrahim, verse 42.

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"Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead—in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it."

— Al-Baqarah (The Cow), verse 154.

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You fall in this world You rise in Jannah

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"You see the recreation or the expansion of the surveillance state against the Muslim community. People are going to lose their jobs."

Quoted from The Deen Show: https://youtu.be/Ry6D5_zzwyM

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I am powerless and fearful. I don't have the influence to change adamant hearts and lift veiled eyes. All I have is my art and my prayers for the innocent lives lost. My heart breaks watching fathers pull their lifeless children (or parts of) out of the rubble. Please... #EndTheOccupation

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Sunrise in Palestine.

What can we do? Prayer (-Du'â) is the believer's weapon.

I am equally sad and angry but at the same time finding solace in believing that the deceased have already won in Jannah, inshaAllah.

حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ (آل عمران (٣٧١:٣ -

"Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs (for us).”  - Surah Al ‘Imran (3:173)

And Allah is with the brokenhearted.