Ramadan. The Month of Mercy. The Month of Forgiveness. The Month of Change. The Month of the Qur‘an. The Month of Blessings. Ramadan is just around the corner. People who are preparing only for this Holy Month, excited and full of anticipation. Families who meet again after a long time. Prayers together, more than before. There’s harmony in everything. It’s the Month when the shayateen are chained in fetters and when Allah’s Mercy is greater than ever. The Month in which each action is rewarded multiple times. The Month in which sometimes the smallest changes have the greatest effect. This Month is an opportunity for inner reckoning, for self-reflection. Deal with yourself, reflect on your heart, on your immaan, before Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala does. Ramadan Kareem 🌙 –soulflowrs
I’m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don’t even belong to each other.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) dir. Blake Edwards
The only thing that mattered was her. She was my garden of Eden. And God knows how beautiful it was until that night. No one is born evil; the devil himself was a fallen angel. But sometimes when you go through hell, the only way out is to walk deeper into the fire.
In academia, people of color and different cultures are often underrepresented. Many people think that reading Donna Tartt, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare, Aristophanes, etc., studying the ideologies of Nietzsche and Camus, studying Greek art, learning Latin, listening to Bach and Chopin, etc. makes one an academic. That is so untrue because academia, intelligence, music, art, architecture, and literature also exists in cultures outside of Europe and European Americans (yes, I just called white people European Americans) as well.