February 2012
13 posts
Tawakkul.
To put one’s full trust in God.
To accept that whatever circumstance you are in, whatever blessings or trials come your way, whatever problems arise, they all happen for a reason.
This tenant of Iman has always been the hardest for me. It has always been hard for me to accept that every trial had a blessing in disguise or that if something I had worked hard for failed to occur,...
heartbeat
There is magic
in the first moments when a song strange to your ears is acknowledged by you,
the first few bars consuming you,
fixating your concentration on the mixture of instruments,
the fluctuation in the singer’s voice,
the smooth blending of voice and instrument blurring all that surrounds you, loosening your anchor,
encompassing your dreams for a different length of time
leading you to...
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‘Can you honestly say that you are proud of yourself?’
The amount of times this has crossed my mind is innumerable.
There have been times I’ve hated, doubted, sickened, been disappointed in myself.
There have been times that I have also been happy with myself.
But proud? Not for a while. All I would see was what I failed in, what I failed to achieve, or had screwed up or...
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of...”
– Theodore I. Rubin
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rebirth
This is a body of flesh and bones, hiding away the madness that lies deep in the mind, the insanity waiting to claw out, especially in those moments when the devil had achieved its goal and opened Pandora’s box within her.
Anger flows out in bursts.
breathe
She flees, running far away from the place that wishes only for her end,
throat burning, a fire tearing through her esophagus, legs carrying...
