“He Asked, "What Makes A Man A Writer?” “Well,” I Said, “it’s Simple. You Either Get It Down

They used to comfort each other upon facing calamities by saying : ”It is but a few days and Jannah is the promise …”

I have a habit of changing my perfume after major life events, so that way if I ever want to go back to a certain time period in my life, I just have to buy a bottle of perfume that will be full of memories and nostalgia

Zindagi Gulzar Hai 2012

When you deliberately choose to not make a statement,your message becomes clear.

Afreen Razvi, Rohingya Genocide (via thisisafreen)

True that!!!

I sing your song beneath the moon

Like a sweater, do you wear me too?

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“When a person does not have enough good deeds to reach a certain level in Jannah, but Allah wants him to attain that level, then Allah tests him and puts him through difficult trials so that Allah may make him reach that level (in Jannah).”

[Sahih Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 2908]

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله:

“Lofty ranks cannot be reached except with trials.”

[Majmu’ al-Fataawa v25, p302]

— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

Zainab Cobbold (Lady Evelyn Murray) was a Scottish Muslim diarist, traveller and noblewoman who was known for her conversion to Islam in the Victorian era.

Cobbold spent much of her childhood in Algiers and Cairo in the company of Muslim nannies. She considered herself a Muslim from a young age despite not officially professing her faith until later.

— excerpt from Pilgrimage to Mecca by Zainab 'Evelyn' Cobbold

Her story is interesting because it provides a peek into the lives of Victorian-era Muslims of Britian, such as herself and other historic pioneers such as Abdullah Quillam, Lord Headley and Marmaduke Pickthall, among others.

He said: ‘describe to me the pleasures of Jannah’ He replied: ‘In it is the Messenger of Allaah’