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saymashaallah · 4 months

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saymashaallah · 5 months

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If you have a habit you want to incorporate in your day, ask Allah to make it easy for you. Make it a part of your regular duaas, for intentionally remembering it in prayer will make it easier to remember it outside of prayer.

Be intentional about why you want to make this a habit. Your intentions make all the difference. Your intention is what places barakah in what you do. Your intention is what will make it an enjoyable process. Your intention is what will make this habit something you are rewarded for by Allah.

Do you want to incorporate the Quran more in your day? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps He will remind you to read a page during your daily commute.

Do you want to exercise every day? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps you will find a form of exercise you really enjoy (and get really good at!) 💪

Do you want to pray tahajjud? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps you will find joy in talking to Him regularly about all that’s in your heart.

Do you want to practice gratitude? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps He will give you plenty of reasons to be grateful to Him.

Do you want to fast once a week or pray in the masjid daily? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps He will send you a friend with the same intention, so that you may motivate each other.

Do you want to build a consistent sleep schedule? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps He will allow you to build a routine that primes your mind and body to rest when it’s supposed to.

Do you want to regularly give to charity? Ask Allah to make it easy. Perhaps you will see a barakah in your money that encourages you to do it more often.

Do what you can to ensure you’re holding yourself accountable, and ask for Allah’s help to make it easy. Have tawakkul, for Allah loves those who rely on Him to achieve their goals. It’s always hardest in the beginning. But I promise, with the right intention and effort, you’ll be months in and feel so grateful that you started today 🩵

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saymashaallah · 5 months

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Important!

After Israeli social media shared these videos and they got viral, they tried claiming these men were hamas members, THEY ARE NOT. They're civilians who were displaced with their families in shelters before Israeli soldiers abducted them.

Families are recognizing their brothers/fathers/grandfathers and sons by the videos shared here. They already executed a number of them.

As a Palestinian, this is the most painful, horrifying thing I had to witness. 63 days of bombing, killing a huge number of these men's families, you also abduct them and humiliate them while filming??? How can they take pride in this. This is genocide, this is holocaust 2.0 and I hope it hunts everyone who can put an effort to stop it but didn't.

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saymashaallah · 6 months

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saymashaallah · 6 months

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if you support israel right now, you're supporting the extermination of the palestinian people.

it really is that simple.

this isn't a 'complicated conflict,' it isn't a situation that 'requires nuance,' it's not a 'geopolitical event' that requires us to condemn the 'bad actors' on 'both sides.'

it's a genocide.

there is no 'nuance' to be had here. it's a genocide, committed by the israeli state against the palestinian people, and it's happening right now as we speak. you don't have to infer anything: israel has openly, with next to no pushback from so-called liberal democracies, cut off gaza's access to water, food and electricity. that's more than two million palestinians denied even the basic necessities for life. a million of them, children.

what is that, if not a genocide?

and that's only the latest escalation. we could go all day, listing the atrocities the palestinian people have been subjected to. the killings, the beatings, the children sexually abused in detention center, all the hospitals and ambulances being blown up, videos of palestinians being heckled by settlers as they're driven from their homes, israelis gathering on hilltops to cheer as their military drops bombs on gaza...

but all westerns want to talk about, is hamas.

because the murder of palestinians by the IDF is status quo; it doesn't affect them. what's one more dead palestinian but a statistic? but if hamas has killed a handful of israelis — if they've go as far as to even kill babies — then that justifies the extermination of two million palestinians, children and infants included.

westerns will even say that the palestinians brought it on themselves; that they should have know that a drop of israeli blood requires a river in return.

and just so we're clear, you don't have to like hamas. but when you equate hamas with the IDF, when you derail every conversation by demanding a condemnation of 'both sides,' or when you, god forbid, agree that israel is justified in dismantling hamas — which, as israel themselves have outlined, will involve the complete destruction of gaza and the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians — then either wake up, or own up to the fact that you're a participant in the extermination of the palestinian people.

do you think i'm being harsh? then imagine how it's like living under constant aerial bombardment. with no food, no water, no electricity. constant air-raid sirens. a bomb, dropping every minute. never knowing a moment a peace, always wondering if today is going to be your last day, if you and your family are still going to be here tomorrow.

could you stomach living in gaza, for even a day? i doubt it.

and still, now, on the eve of what might be the ground invasion of gaza — with one million palestinians being told to flee, with nowhere to go — i'm getting messages from people who demand my sympathy... for israel.

well, you're not getting it.

i'm not even humoring your hand-wringing.

if you live in israel, and you're one of the ones who've turned a blind-eye to the suffering of the palestinian people, if you've fought for the IDF or tacitly supported them, if you've callously called upon the memory of the holocaust thinking the death and suffering of your ancestors would wash the blood of your own hands....

then yeah, i think you deserve every single hamas rocket lobbed at you and so much more.

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saymashaallah · 7 months

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