Eid Mubarak 💫

May also be an outcome of my age/circumstances (health, aging parents, sister’s serious illness), but I wept through the last 4 eps of the profoundly moving Dr. Omar Suleiman “Why Me?” series.

Sad to bid farewell to Ramadan, & to this beautiful series. youtube.com/watch?v=tc7V0-…

“That is how grief infects families and turns some of us into detectives.

The first grief was my mother's; I inherited it.”

- “Rules for Visiting” by Jessica Francis Kane #amreading

Hamza, the man who gave his $17.74 paycheck for 136 hours of prison labor to relief efforts in Gaza, has been freed:

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If you are looking for something to do during today's solar eclipse:

It’s narrated by Asma in Sahih Al-Bukhari that “No doubt the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered people to manumit slaves during the solar eclipse.”

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Little hearts raining down on us today due to the partial eclipse in San Francisco, subhanAllah. 🤲🏾💛

I keep thinking of the many White/western/Global North people who shared this Naomi Shulman quote some years ago. And how few have spoken up about the genocide(s).

I guess “nice people” don’t change over time?

'We believe PEN America bears a particular responsibility to call for an immediate, permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation. We know that South Africa’s freedom was won, in part, because of international pressure exerted on the apartheid government.'

I once heard that we should always make du’a for people who cross our minds & that Allah might remind us of them because He wants to accept our prayer. “Honor the guests of your heart.” Always stuck with me. And when we pray for someone, the Angels say, “For you the same.”🥹

Allahumma innaka ‘afuwwun tuhibbul-‘afwa, fa’fu ‘anni

O Allah, You are Forgiving and love forgiveness, so forgive me.

May we be granted new paper to adorn, insha’Allah ameen.

UPDATE: In the US, COVID wastewater levels are now low.

If you've been holding off getting healthcare or doing other indoor activities, now is one of the best times of the year to do these things more safely.

Just to be clear: This country is killing children, killing aid workers, killing journalists, killing doctors, and the US continues to send them bombs and US universities continue to criminalize the people who speak out against these atrocities!

Relinquish your grudges. Revive your heart. Renew your faith. Repeat words of remembrance. Release your tears. Rush to the forgiveness of your Lord. Raise your rank in Paradise.

You may never see these last ten nights again. Don’t take them for granted.

#LaylatulQadr

This Indigenous Mapuche leader has a message of solidarity for Palestinians.

This is Moira Millán’s letter from one oppressed people to another.

Tony Kushner says Jonathan Glazer made an “unimpeachable, irrefutable statement' about the Israel-Hamas war in his Oscar speech.

'What he’s saying is so simple. He’s saying: Jewishness, Jewish identity, Jewish history, the history of the Holocaust, the history of Jewish…

Hala’s last post on her timeline is a prayer. This world had nothing left to offer - she asked for relief from this hell in the next.

Forgive us first, ya Allah, for letting this happen.

World Central Kitchen has a matching grant up to 100k, thus doubling the impact of your donation to Gaza.

100% of the donation goes to food aid.

iA may Allah grant the Palestinians victory, ameen.

Please support & share. 💛 donate.wck.org/campaign/56737…

We center celebrity resistance too. Particularly when we can clearly see the transactional limits of such solidarity. And when that solidarity falls short, it divides the communities it was supposedly helping. As was intended.