a grandchild carries the mosque's seat for his grandparent. Cairo, Egypt.

a 1996 Palestinian stamp depicting an olive branch

[id: a postage stamp with a botanical illustration of an olive branch. the olives on the branch are in various stages of ripeness. the face value of the stamp is 1,000 Jordanian fils. end id]

i don't understand how anyone sees a nine-year-old choosing to be a journalist for her people and feels anything other than rage and anger and shame and disappointment in the fact that countries that claim to care about children do nothing or even worse--actively encourage and fund this continued atrocity.

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Why do you seem so upset

Have you been forbidden from paradise or promised hell fire

Be gentle on yourself it’s only this dunya

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and even if only Allah knows of the good in your heart, remember that is all you need, and all you will ever need.

A door to the sea

— Langston Hughes, from In the Mist of the Moon.

مع الوقت ستعرف حكمة الله في كل ما حدث لك

With time, you will come to know the wisdom of Allah in everything that has happened to you

ستعرف أنه كان أرحم بك من نفسك

You will come to realise that He has been more merciful to you than your own self.