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ٱللَّهُ وَلِيُّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ

“Allah is the Guardian of the believers”

(Quran 2:257)

We do not know which land, which heart, and which decision is good for us. But we believe that good is in what Allāh has chosen for us.

— Mary Shelley, from The Last Man.

— Adonis, from ‘Motion’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

Revolutionary walls of Dara’a, Syria.

— Qur'ān 48:4

Palestinian pray near the rubble of a destroyed mosque in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip,

اللهم انصر اخواننا

remembrance

Khalid bin Ma'dan narrated that Abu ’Ubaida bin al-Jarrah once said,

“The parable of a believer’s heart is like that of a bird, it alights and then soars again and again so many times each day.”

-Hilyat Al-Awliya by Imam Abu Na’im.

ثُمَّ كُلِي مِن كُلِّ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ فَٱسۡلُكِي سُبُلَ رَبِّكِ ذُلُلٗاۚ يَخۡرُجُ مِنۢ بُطُونِهَا شَرَابٞ مُّخۡتَلِفٌ أَلۡوَٰنُهُۥ فِيهِ شِفَآءٞ لِّلنَّاسِۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ

Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you].“ There emerges from their bellies a drink (honey), varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.

Surah An-Nahl, Ayah 69

— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude