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thinking about how all of my worst mistakes, grief, bad recipes, etc were also born out of love 

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When Vladimir Nabokov wrote; "There are days when I adore you just a little more than a human being can adore"

But Jaun Elia said; "kya husn-e-ittefaq tha ki unki gali mein hum..ek kaam se gaye, har kaam se gaye"

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give me the kind of love that when you touch them with your cold hands, they gasp and pull you closer. that they give you warmth even at the cost of their own comfort. give me love that breathes on your chilly fingers, rubs them gently, holds them no matter what.

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Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

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You probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase. And that's okay. But occasionally, just occasionally, I hope you will open up your suitcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and needs the things you carry.

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Note to self : Just because you don't have a romantic interest to mention in your tahajjud prayers doesn't mean you're missing out. ❤️‍🩹

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As if the clay you were made of was moulded with rose water 💗

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17:23

۞ وَقَضَىٰ رَبُّكَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوٓا۟ إِلَّآ إِيَّاهُ وَبِٱلْوَٰلِدَيْنِ إِحْسَـٰنًا ۚ إِمَّا يَبْلُغَنَّ عِندَكَ ٱلْكِبَرَ أَحَدُهُمَآ أَوْ كِلَاهُمَا فَلَا تَقُل لَّهُمَآ أُفٍّۢ وَلَا تَنْهَرْهُمَا وَقُل لَّهُمَا قَوْلًۭا كَرِيمًۭا ٢٣

For your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And honour your parents. If one or both of them reach old age in your care, never say to them ˹even˺ ‘ugh,’ nor yell at them. Rather, address them respectfully.

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17:24

وَٱخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ ٱلذُّلِّ مِنَ ٱلرَّحْمَةِ وَقُل رَّبِّ ٱرْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَانِى صَغِيرًۭا ٢٤

And be humble with them out of mercy, and pray, “My Lord! Be merciful to them as they raised me when I was young.”

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As the mystics say, “If you don't have time to remember God for thirty minutes, then remember Him for one hour.”

In other words, if you do not have time for the Creator of time, you need prayer more than you think. What a restful night’s sleep does for the body, prayer does for the soul. What most people fail to understand is that when we pray we are actually taking back time’s dominion over us.

To understand how, consider the following: The famous physicist Albert Einstein proved with his theory of relativity that time is relative. Einstein's theory says that, as an object gets closer to the speed of light, time slows for that object. A single ray of light travelling through space is in an eternally present moment with no past or future. If we were to somehow enter into a wave of light, time would stop. This is why whenever we sincerely connect to the presence of Allah, who is known as “The Light of the heavens and the earth,” time begins to expand (24:35).

The Qur’an says, “A day with Allah is like a thousand years as you count them” (22:47), because the closer we get to the gravity of Allah’s infinite light, the more time begins to slow down. The secret to having more time is not to rush, but rather slowing down in mindful prayer, allowing the light of God to draw you into its timeless presence. Angels are made of light, meaning they are in the present moment with their worship and praise of God. When we mindfully pray with both our bodies and our voices we are mirroring the praise of the angels in the highest celestial realms.

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When thoughts arise, we do not judge them, analyze them, or try to change them—instead, we watch them pass by like clouds floating in the sky of our mind, and gently return our gaze back to the Divine. When we create space between our thoughts and who we actually are, we realize that we are not our thoughts. It is only then that we are able to let go of the self-judgment and shame associated with the ego, which often prevents us from feeling worthy of having a relationship with Allah.

Once we can see that Allah is our refuge and safe haven from the grips of the ego, we can begin to turn our hearts from the fleeting creation to the eternal Creator.

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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

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The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.

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"I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face."

- Kafka

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I’ll be patient but do I have to wait for heaven to find a home?

-astray

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I never thought that I'd be one of those people who will transparently put their thoughts out here in tumblr. But here I'm only because I want to avoid studying. Well it's better than to just stare at the wall and blame my brain.

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I am hungry for touch & ashamed to be looked at

— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die