The funeral prayer in Islam is done standing up. There are no prostrations like you see in the regular prayers.
It is permissible to weep quietly, to shed tears, but not to wail or fall apart. This is because your loved ones can hear you praying and standing above them. Your heartbreak will be their heartbreak.
“Whosoever is wept upon will suffer as a result of this weeping.” - Prophet Muhammad, PBUH, (Bukhari and Muslim)
Imagine his heartbreak here. And of the faith it takes not to break down in this moment.
I’d never seen so many decapitated bodies before. I’d never seen so many burnt bodies. I’d never seen so many children without limbs. I’d never seen so many dead bodies piled on top of each other.
Humanity failed Gaza.
To massacre a people to the point that the only way to calculate the death toll is by using a scale to weigh pieces of shattered flesh equivalent to the weight of a human is unconscionable.
"the flour massacre"
"the al-ahli hospital massacre"
"the massacre against the tents of the displaced"
"the Fajr massacre"
We're counting massacres. We're naming them to tell them apart because there are so many. In just 10 months. We're memorizing them. We will not forget.
This is UN satellite data. As many Israeli soldiers and political leaders have openly said, the goal is to make sure people in Gaza have nothing left to return to.
This is not a war "against Hamas."
This is absolutely horrific, a Palestinian mother screams as her child burns in a fire. If you are an American, you’re paying for this. We are paying to burn children alive.