Author: Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

﷽ As-Salâmu ‘Alaykum wa Raĥmatullâhi wa Barakâtuh (^_^), MINI ME ~ An Empowered Empath: My energy revolves around heart healing and my personal values: graceful self-growth, creative expression and functional learning. I'm all about transparency, congruency, truth, 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 an insatiable bibliophile and otaku. Jazâkum Allâhu Khairan for YOUR valuable time (*^_^*). Healing Regards (^_^)

21 June 202127 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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

21 May 202130 October 2022Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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)

19 January 202028 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

Poem ☁ WORDS LEFT BEHIND

‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”‘ ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

19 July 201927 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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

29 April 201928 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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

18 March 201828 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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)

18 January 201830 October 2022Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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

11 November 201627 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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

16 August 201627 January 2023Rabab Maher ☁ Skilful White Clouds

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)