Tears trickle down my silent cheeks.
I feel embarrassed. I don’t want to bother
them, nor any part of my body.
Everything around me wants to stand silent,
unmoved by the air or by my breath.
Everything wants to stop for this moment. Even our olive
tree bends when it sees the bomb fall.
— Mosab Abu Toha, from "Tears," Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
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Leonard Cohen, from The Book of Mercy (1984)
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Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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Carl Phillips, from “To Lie Down. To War Nothing at All.”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
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Rati Saxena, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Mountain nights"
[Text ID: “Last night / there was a dream / And / In the dream? You / You / You / And / Only you”]
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وَّيَرۡزُقۡهُ مِنۡ حَيۡثُ لَا يَحۡتَسِبُ
And Allah will provide for him from where he does not expect.
Qur'an 65:3
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وإذا خسرت كل شيء ، فلن تفقد الله ، وهذا غني تمامًا ومطمئن
And if you lost everything, you did not lose God, and this is completely hopeful and reassuring.
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'On the Waterfront' - 1954
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فَاطِرَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ أَنتَ وَلِىِّۦ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۖ تَوَفَّنِى مُسْلِمًۭا وَأَلْحِقْنِى بِٱلصَّـٰلِحِينَ
Creator of the heavens and earth, You are my protector in this world and the Hereafter. Cause me to die a Muslim and join me with the righteous.
12:101
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وَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ
Do not let their words grieve you.
Qur'an 10:65
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يُخۡرِجُهُمۡ مِّنَ الظُّلُمٰتِ اِلَى النُّوۡرِ
He brings them out of every darkness into light.
Qur'an 2:257
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I hope you find the courage to step out of your shell. You deserve to be seen.
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