Taken from “Al-Ghazalis letter to a disciple”

Fredik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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Make Your Relationship a Blessing: Choose Halal Love Over Haram

If you are dating someone, then please consider getting married as soon as possible. Engaging in haram relationships is not blessed at all. They are prohibited for a reason, and indulging in them, even if you wake each other up for Fajr, does not make them any more rewardable. If you truly love someone, you would be aware of the afterlife and the consequences of dying while in a haram relationship without seeking repentance. Not only would you suffer, but you would also drag your "loved one" down with you in severe punishment. If you truly love someone, you wouldn't want that, would you? Why not make it a blessing? If this person is such a blessing in your life, then why not get married and receive blessings from Allāh instead of wasting years of time, effort, and patience behind someone who might even change their mind or easily leave because haram relationships offer no protection, commitment, or blessing from Allāh. Please take this as advice from me. Please turn your haram relationship into a halal one before it's too late. Don't disappoint Allāh if you don't want to lose your loved one. Perform Istikhara, make duā, and proceed.

Sincerely wrappedinamystery x

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

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Jack Gilbert, “The Great Fires”

“Hurrying, hurrying — for the knowledge of life —no, not that — for a knowledge of aliveness—”

— Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964.

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peopleiveloved

“If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.”

— Ruthie Lindsey

“My world was warm with April sun my thoughts were spangled green and gold; my soul filled up with joy, yet felt the sharp, sweet pain that only joy can hold.”

— fr. “I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”, Sylvia Plath

[...] I recognized him by the beating of my heart.

Alexandre Dumas, from 'The Count of Monte Cristo', tr. Robin Buss

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

— Washington Irving (via macrolit)

Ankita Saxena, on her translation of Fahmida Riaz's poem "A Woman Is Laughing", pub. Modern Poetry in Translation [ID'd]

My solitude was cold, there was no denying that, but it was also serene, wonderfully serene and vast like the cold serene space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse, from 'Steppenwolf', tr. David Horrocks

Purple Water Lilies by Claude Monet