In the Healing Timeless Words of ♡ Beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ ♡, ‘Indeed, there is in the body a bite-size [organ], if mended, the whole body will be healed, and if corrupt then the whole body will be ruined; indeed, it is the heart.’
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Why I Write
I write for accountability.
I write for transparency.
I write for clarity.
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Poem ☁ WORDS LEFT BEHIND
‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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My Colourful Way of Life
AN EMPOWERED EMPATH: My energy revolves around transparency, graceful ageing and my personal values: heart healing, creative expression, versatile self-growth and deliberate learning. I’m all about congruency, truth, trust, fairness and kindness. I believe in prevention over treatment, – ‘A dirham of prevention is better than a wealth of cure.’ – possibility over hope, dancing with discomfort, embracing fear and gracious gratitude over complaints (a luxury in and of itself). I’m also a perpetual functional learner, an insatiable bibliophile and avid otaku.
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Poem ☁ TO FALL IN LOVE
A RESILIENT HEART
{And those who BELIEVE are STRONGER in LOVE for ALLÂH} ♡ (002:165)
‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus
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Poem ☁ A SILENT PLEA
KILLING OURSELVES SLOWLY
{وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا}
{And do not kill yourselves; Indeed, Allâh is to you ever Merciful.}
(04:29)
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Art ☁ JERUSALEM IS OURS
‘They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians.’ ~ Norman Finkelstein
‘Power in the defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction, which produces action, uncompromising action.’ ~ Malcolm X رحمه الله
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Article ☁ IS IT FOR ALLÂH ﷻ?
A FULFILLING TENET TO LIVE BY
‘Fear of God is courage, worshipping Him is freedom, humility before Him is dignity, and knowing Him is certainty.’ ~ The Esteemed Dr Mustafa Mahmoud (Allâh Yirĥamu)
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Article ☁ YOGA HELPS ME AS A MUSLIM
A beautiful healing benefit: performing salâh mindfully better with smooth yet strong movements and postures inshâ’Allâh, becoming more aware of spine alignment, foot placement and joint care.
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Poem ☁ UNCONDITIONALLY YOURS
As winter leaves
Autumn wanders in
Sleeping emotions
Arise from within. -
Article ☁ A VOW IN ONE “WORD”
A HEALING WAY OF LIFE AND DEATH – AND LOVE
Kalimat Ash-Shahâdah, ‘the word of testimony’, is easy to utter with its pleasing flow of Arabic words, and easy to fall in love with.
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THE IMPOSSIBLE ABSENCE by Maher Abdullah
الغياب المستحيل
Poetic words that became popular through a famous song ‘Enamoured/Enchanted My Soul’ (فتنت روحي), only discovered after my Dad returned to ALLÂH ﷻ, not knowing his poetic words became a well-loved song.
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Book Review ☁ MEDIA CONTROL
‘The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda’
Unmasking the methods of indoctrination and exposing the mendacious, hypocritical and duplicitous ways of the US government and media under the guise of autonomy, democracy and egalitarianism.
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PALESTINE ♡ ALL Lives Matter
{O you who believe, persistently stand firm in justice, witnesses for Allâh, even if it be against yourselves or parents or relatives. Whether rich or poor, Allâh is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [your testimony] or refuse [to give it], then indeed Allâh is ever, with what you do, Acquainted.}
(004:135)
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Article ☁ THE BEAUTY OF CLASSICAL ARABIC: A TIMELESS IDENTITY OF ISLÂM
A Semitic language luring and captivating in its aesthetic and literary allure and orally poignant, mellifluous and fluid, both a science and an art.
Recent Shares
Poem ☁️ VACANT TOLERANCE
REFRAMING PERSPECTIVES
‘Malicious generalisations about Islam have become the last acceptable form of denigration of foreign culture in the West; what is said about the Muslim mind, or character, or religion, or culture as a whole cannot now be said in mainstream discussion about Africans, Jews, other Orientals, or Asians.’ ~ The Late Edward Said
A NEW EID POEM by Khalid AlMahmoud
{. . . To Allâh belongs the command [i.e., decree] before and after. And that day the believers will rejoice. In the victory of Allâh. He gives victory to whom He wills, and He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful. [It is] the promise of Allâh. Allâh does not fail in His promise, but most of the people do not know.}
(30:04-06)
Poem ☁ WORDS LEFT BEHIND
‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Poem ☁ THE SLEEPING POET AWAKENS
What are words, rhymes and verses good for?
When we don’t live by them but ephemerally
We get lost in the poetic flow of similes and metaphors
With the message stirring an emotion only temporarily
Poem ☁ TO FALL IN LOVE
A RESILIENT HEART
{And those who BELIEVE are STRONGER in LOVE for ALLÂH} ♡ (002:165)
‘Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.’ ~ Albert Camus
Poem ☁ A SILENT PLEA
KILLING OURSELVES SLOWLY
{وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُمْ رَحِيمًا}
{And do not kill yourselves; Indeed, Allâh is to you ever Merciful.}
(04:29)
Art ☁ JERUSALEM IS OURS
‘They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians.’ ~ Norman Finkelstein
‘Power in the defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction, which produces action, uncompromising action.’ ~ Malcolm X رحمه الله
Poem ☁ FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
Thanks to my dear hubby’s dare
I started this website five years ago today
With the intention of sharing book reviews
Instead, it has evolved in a different way
Poem ☁ THE ONLY TRUTH: THE INNER TRUTH (III)
{It is HE Who created life and death to test which of you is BETTER in Deed}
(67:02)
Skilful White Clouds 