February 2012
“She was the most beautiful garden and Majnun was a torch of longing. She planted...”
– Nizami, The Story of Layla and Majnun (via heartbeatssouldeep)
“The sky where we live Is no place to lose your wings. So love, love, Love”
– Hafiz (via lovelydeen)
The Golden Rule:
lovelydeen:
That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Hillel The Elder
I am surprised at three things…
lovelydeen:
Man runs from death while death is inevitable.
One sees minor faults of others, but overlooks his own major faults.
When there is any defect to one’s cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.”
- Sayyiduna ‘Umar al-Faruq radiAllahu ‘Anhu
“At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.”
– Bentley (via lovelydeen)
“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat.”
– Proverbs of Solomon (Sulayman) 25:21 (via casketofpearls)
“The right thinking man is like the poor: we have him always with us. He is the...”
– Thomas Merton, The New Man (via constructionofmemory)
“Study this world. The most beautiful things have always come out of struggle....”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via everydaytthesameday)
Saving Face.
anotherukhut:
Saving Face, a short documentary about acid attacks on girls in Pakistan, JUST WON AN OSCAR!
This and A Separation are the only reasons I watched the awards…. Muslims brothers/sisters making us proudddd :)
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find...”
– Eric Hoffer (via lovelydeen)
“In order to discover the character of a people, we have only to observe what...”
– Augustine of Hippo (via lovelydeen)
“I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name. The raw heart beat against the...”
– Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy (via lovelydeen)
“Man
If you have any self-respect,
A heart in your chest,
Brains in your head,...”
– Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (via lovelydeen)
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking...”
– Raymond Carver (via lovelydeen)
“As minerals in the ground rise inside trees and become tree,
as plant faces an...”
– Rumi (via lovelydeen)
“Do they not think and reflect within themselves?”
– Al Quran 30:8 (via remorsecode)
“The path of God’s love leads through the valley of service”.”
– Sufi Saying. (via lovelydeen)
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who...”
– David Jeremiah (via lovelydeen)
“All civilizations are fallen, but in different ways: the fall of the East is...”
– Frithjof Schuon- Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts (via lovelydeen)
“Love is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal,...”
– Mark Mathabane (via lovelydeen)
“A hundred more years from now
My poems will be your evening-talks,
Just like...”
– Rumi (via lovelydeen)
bint al-Waqt: Salat al Azeemiyya →
lovelydeen:
“O Allah, I ask by the Light of Face of God, the Great
Which filled pillars of the Throne of God, the Great
and by it are upheld the worlds of God, the Great,
To send blessings upon our Master Muhammad of tremendous worth, and upon the family of the Prophet of God, the Great, as much as…
