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‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.
Source: BBC
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March 19, 2024  | Ramadan Challenge 9/30
Narrated 'Aisha: Once the Prophet (ﷺ) came while a woman was sitting with me. He said: "Who is she?" I replied, "She is so and so," and told him about her (excessive) praying. He said disapprovingly, "Do (good) deeds which is within your capacity (without being overtaxed) as Allah does not get tired (of giving rewards) but (surely) you will get tired and the best deed (act of Worship) in the sight of Allah is that which is done regularly."
🥲 actually this ramadan I’ve been struggling a lot with not being able to go above and beyond with productivity and ramadan goals like usual. Inshallah I am able to come out of this month with at least one good habit that continues beyond Ramadan.
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i know a lot ot us have that “what if i’m actually annoying” fear, and while i COULD self-soothe with affirmations like “i’m not annoying, it’s okay” i prefer “it is my human right to be annoying and cringe”
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March 17-18 2024  | Ramadan Challenge 7-8/30
Currently going thru a rough patch w/ illness. Alhamdulillah for everything though. Ramadan continues so we must try to continue our efforts to gain reward despite everything. May Allah give us tawfiq.
My ideal suhoor item is a giant bowl of milk, rice, and mango/banana ✨ and ideal iftar item is all the fried bengali foods galore: beguni, bora, chickpeas + potatoes, muri (aka all the things I can’t eat rn lol)
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March 16, 2024 - Saturday | Ramadan Challenge 6/30
Biggest life lesson or advice you would give to others:
The most important thing you can ever do for yourself is build up a good group of friends/family. Invest in your relationships no matter how difficult it is to fit in time. Because lots of things happen on this journey of life and different things will strike different ppl at different times and you will need people to lean on emotionally, physically, etc. I know we are in an age of independence and everyone living alone but no matter how much screentime we consume and advice we can get from youtube videos nothing replaces real humans who care about you and you care for them! A single smile from someone you know can do more for your problems than 100 informative youtube videos.
Personally I think sometimes as studyblrs we can become so engrossed in our studies and goals we may sacrifice time with loved ones without batting an eyelid. But we need those relationships!
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Ramadan challenge 2024
March 14 - Thursday, Ramadan 3/30
The first ten days of Ramadan are the days of mercy and blessings from Allah. It feels like three days of Ramadan are gone in blink. I've been reading the Quran, and helping with chores around the house. But I wish I could do more. I want to be more mindful of how I spend my time. I'm kind of struggling with social media and mindless scrolling.
So I decided I'm going to read the Seerah and memorize some duaas 🤍
Day 3: What is your favorite act of worship? Has it always been your favorite?
My favorite act of worship would be... reciting the Quran! It comes the easiest to me. I can recite the Quran whenever I feel like, anywhere I want. Reciting the Quran brings peace to my mind and lifts my mood. I also love listening to recitations when I'm feeling down, or in the car.
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Ramadan Challenge 2024, Day 4
Day 4: Ramadan is the month of the qur'an. What is an ayah from the Qur'an that has changed your view of things or impacted you deeply (this year)?
وَمَن يَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ يَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مَخْرَجًۭا (٢) And whoever is mindful of Allah, He will make a way out for them, وَيَرْزُقْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ ۚ وَمَن يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بَـٰلِغُ أَمْرِهِۦ ۚ قَدْ جَعَلَ ٱللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدْرًۭا (٣) and provide for them from sources they could never imagine. And whoever puts their trust in Allah, then He ˹alone˺ is sufficient for them. Certainly Allah achieves His Will. Allah has already set a destiny for everything.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran Surah Al-Talaq aya 2-3
This isn't from this year, it's actually from April 2013.  I was going through such a hard time and completely losing hope in everything.  It was one of the few times in my life I actually felt ungrateful to god because I couldn't see the point of everything I was going through.  I felt embarrassed for being ungrateful as soon as I felt it, because clearly I was doing better than a lot of people.  I was just lost and couldn't think what to do next.  So I said whatever dua came to mind for guidance, just prayed from the heart because I felt helpless and powerless in my situation.  This was the aya that got me through an incredibly dark time, a crucial fork in the road when I really needed courage to speak up for myself or risk suffering potentially devastating consequences for the rest of my life.
I still keep the ajr in mind for my daily tasks, even if I don't specifically refer to this aya in particular in daily life.  But it's always there for me to fall back on.
Diary for today:
Writing this before I go do the final preparation for futoor.  Today the hunger pangs are working together with PMS cramps.  I can't even cough without feeling it.  The PMS headache and lower back pain aren't helping either.  I have the privilege of being able to be kind to myself today: since I'm too physically weak for much, I mostly slept, then when I woke up, did less than usual.  I have that option and the rest will allow me to recover my strength inshallah.
I saw that the Oscars are trending on tumblr these past couple of days. Listen, I understand celebrating our website-wide certified holiday, the Ides of March, but y'all really said let's not talk about the Oscars and then did.  And you know what?  I get it.  Unless you're the one in the situation, you won't be able to keep on that one note, because you've got a life outside of it. 
Maintenance is hard work.  These fights are marathons, not sprints, although the sprints definitely help, too!  I'm wondering to wear for Eid even as I hold my breath over the inevitable atrocities they're planning for Palestine's Eid.  I just hope that even if people don't turn up for Palestine every day, enough of them do for some change to take place.
Daily click as much a reminder for myself.
Day 1 | Day 3 | Day 5
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Ramadan challenge 2024
March 13 - Wednesday, Ramadan 2/30
It was the second say of Ramadan, with much of a humid weather. I was feeling tired and fatigued all day. Probably the effects of not drinking enough water last night. I hope the fatigue will go away as days go on.
Day 2: What are your other obligations this month? How does it compare to previous years? How do you balance them with ramadan?
Same as last Ramadan, I don't have any academic obligations this year alhamdulillah. My semester actually ended last month. So that's a relief 🤍
Although my father assigned some tasks for me this Ramadan, it isn't too heavy task so I'm alright with it. (Tasks like finishing an arabic grammar book and help him researching for the book he is writing)
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Ramadan Challenge 2024, Day 2
Day 2: What are your other obligations this month? How does it compare to previous years? How do you balance them with ramadan?
My mom used to tell me the timelime of life difficulties at each stage, and she'd say being in your 30s and 40s was hard because everyone wants something from you: your husband, your kids, your parents, your boss, leaving very little time for you or your friends.  (That is, the friends that survived all the life changes of the 20s: graduating, getting jobs, getting married, moving houses, having your first kids.  Don't worry, you'll reconnect with some of them in your 50s!  Stay nice to everyone cause you don't know how life turns out.)
That's kind of where we are now.  School and jobs but also parents' health and demands, all taking a toll on us and our own health.  That being said, this year is a tiny bit easier than previous years, but especially last year, because last year I was fasting completely unaware of being insulin resistant and severely iron deficient.  The kind of fatigue where I'm asleep half the day just to be able to function and during last Ramadan, my alopecia hadn't fully grown back yet.  I actually fasted the whole thing last year because my period was coming once every two months.
It feels weird to be taking a bunch of pills after breaking fast, like I'm suddenly An Old Person, but it's way better than the alternate alhamdulillah, I'm in a place where my support systems allow me to have a regular supply of the meds I need for the things that would otherwise make life very difficult.
I'm not fully recovered yet, my tests are far from average, but I'm getting there.  So this is more of the same stuff I said yesterday: I'm putting all my energy into seeking ajr in the daily tasks.
Other stuff: (diary??)
Writing this one in the afternoon.  Day 1 went smoothly alhamdulillah not even a headache.  I ate light for suhoor last night so I'm feeling the hunger today.  I know that the whole "feeling hunger puts you in the shoes of people who fast because they must" solidarity is something we came up with* but it definitely feels true since so many of us experience it.
* Since fasting is the one thing we don't fully understand.
The bombing during Ramadan is nothing new, we've come to expect it at this point.  They'll do it again for eid.  But this year my heart is swinging between the usual dread and, for once, being a little lighter.  The world is actively rooting for Palestine and trying to make tangible changes this year.   I don't know if it'll work, but it's looking like it might.  Inshallah not too little, too late, they're fighting against a big enemy.
For me, it's mostly more of the same, although the daily clicks are new this year.
Day 2 is a bit harder, the mind fog comes with the iron deficiency (who knew you needed to burn through some iron every day? not me) and today I'm definitely feeling it.  Can't focus long enough to do anything useful either religiously or housewifely.  Probably just rest until futoor.  Maybe after breaking fast, I can do some smaller tasks.
Day 1 | Day 3
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March 16, 2024 - Saturday | Ramadan Challenge 6/30
Biggest life lesson or advice you would give to others:
The most important thing you can ever do for yourself is build up a good group of friends/family. Invest in your relationships no matter how difficult it is to fit in time. Because lots of things happen on this journey of life and different things will strike different ppl at different times and you will need people to lean on emotionally, physically, etc. I know we are in an age of independence and everyone living alone but no matter how much screentime we consume and advice we can get from youtube videos nothing replaces real humans who care about you and you care for them! A single smile from someone you know can do more for your problems than 100 informative youtube videos.
Personally I think sometimes as studyblrs we can become so engrossed in our studies and goals we may sacrifice time with loved ones without batting an eyelid. But we need those relationships!
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I don't see people talking about this so today is the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in where the factory owners locked working women and girls inside to "eliminate the risk of theft" (in reality it was too keep them from taking breaks), which resulted in the gruesome deaths of 123 mostly immigrant women and girls and 23 men, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor either in a panicked attempt to escape or in order to die quickly. There were reports that some of the workers were on fire already as they jumped.
The eighth floor of the building was able to telephone the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, but the factory on the ninth floor where these women and girls labored had no such communication and such warning.
The factory owners were criminally charged with manslaughter for actions that contributed to the mass deaths but acquitted. However, this tragedy led to mass sympathy to the labor movement, and unions spurred on safety regulations that passed in New York state and eventually the entire country, and activists were able to reduce child labor in the process.
This tragedy is a reminder that has been forgotten in the 110 years since: every safety regulation-- every scrap of paperwork contributing to the hundreds of pages of red tape people like to complain about--every word of it was written in the blood of a laborer.
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25.03.2024—born to study at night, forced to work in the day 🫡
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2024.02.14 // 17:27 bits of green that have me longing for summer to return
pic: north point park, manistee co., mich.
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Apartheid wall graffiti,in ‎Bethlehem‬ ‬ ‪‎Palestine‬
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