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i am now mature enough to realize that the feeling that proceeds doing the right thing is way more exciting than the feeling that proceeds doing the wrong thing.

God is great

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Floral patterns, much loved during the Victorian years, are scattered throughout this room.

Interior Design On Your Own, 1986

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﴿ ۞ قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ﴾

Say, ˹O Prophet, that Allah says,˺ “O My servants who have exceeded the limits against their souls! Do not lose hope in Allah’s mercy, for Allah certainly forgives all sins. He is indeed the All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

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﴿وَالَّذينَ كَفَروا أَعمالُهُم كَسَرابٍ بِقيعَةٍ يَحسَبُهُ الظَّمآنُ ماءً حَتّى إِذا جاءَهُ لَم يَجِدهُ شَيئًا وَوَجَدَ اللَّهَ عِندَهُ فَوَفّاهُ حِسابَهُ وَاللَّهُ سَريعُ الحِسابِ ۝ أَو كَظُلُماتٍ في بَحرٍ لُجِّيٍّ يَغشاهُ مَوجٌ مِن فَوقِهِ مَوجٌ مِن فَوقِهِ سَحابٌ ظُلُماتٌ بَعضُها فَوقَ بَعضٍ إِذا أَخرَجَ يَدَهُ لَم يَكَد يَراها وَمَن لَم يَجعَلِ اللَّهُ لَهُ نورًا فَما لَهُ مِن نورٍ ۝ أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ مَن فِي السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضِ وَالطَّيرُ صافّاتٍ كُلٌّ قَد عَلِمَ صَلاتَهُ وَتَسبيحَهُ وَاللَّهُ عَليمٌ بِما يَفعَلونَ﴾ [An-Nūr: 39-41]

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سبحان الله

the phenomenon of crown shyness.

Crown shyness is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.

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i cannot believe i must share a life with a disease of the mind that nobody can see or sense. i am worried i am really losing control this time.

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سبحان الخالق العظيم

Full moon over Mount Blue Sky. Arapahoe County, Colorado. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

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سبحان الله، والحمدلله، و لا إله إلا الله، و الله أكبر.

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Behold, the earth is filled with our graves!

Where are the rest of the graves

Since the time of Ad

Tread softly, walk gently;

For I believe the soil of this earth

Is nothing but the crumbled dust of these bodies

It is unbecoming of us, disgraceful,

To desecrate our fathers and forefathers,

Although separated from us by countless ages

Walk leisurely on air, if able to;

Not self-conceitedly, on peoples’ mortal remains

The same grave, perhaps repeatedly used,

Scoffs at the crammed corpses

Of both men and women, interned therein

Lo, one body atop another,

Throughout eternity; since time immemorial

Inquire of the two luminaries, ask the North Star

About diversified races they witnessed;

The nations, they sleeplessly gazed at

How oft they tirelessly watched the passage of days,

And illumined travelers’ paths in the dark

— Philosophical Views of Abu al-Ala al-Maarri, translated by Mahmoud Abbas Masoud

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it has been quite difficult to do the things i must do to maintain stability in this life because i am thinking too much about the next life. i feel incompetent sometimes.

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Dendritic native silver crystals from Batopilas, Mexico https://www.le-comptoir-geologique.com/native-silver-encyclopedia.html

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my heart has never felt heavier and i’ve never felt so painfully aware of the fleeting state of life and the urgency of death

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وكُلَّما كَبُرَ همُّ الحياة في قلوبنا هَوَّنهُ القُرآن.

And whenever the burdens of life grow heavier in our hearts, the Quran eases them.