Alive like never before, I know me, like never before, I know what I fight for, and what an honour to fight for, Palestine.
Here in the Heart of my city, my heart,
I can't belong anywhere else, it's where I start and will end, and what an honour to have this end.
I still find myself explaining it over and over, correcting people who casually throw around words that Gaza didn’t just fall into hunger; it was pushed. By bombs on bakeries. By blocked aid. By policies that make feeding your child a punishable act.
If you think there’s something more important to talk about right now; there isn’t. Not when children are literally dying from dehydration. Not when families are boiling weeds.
I am pleading with people to pay attention, to talk, to post, to inform others about the systematic starvation happening in Gaza. Not famine. Famine is an unfortunate natural disaster. This is engineered, deliberate, and weaponized hunger. A policy. A siege. A slow, public execution through thirst and deprivation.
Feminism that claps for women breaking the stratosphere but stays silent as women beg for sanitary pads under rubble isn’t feminism; it’s theater. What’s the point of shattering glass ceilings if you’re too scared to look down at the blood-soaked floor? For over a year and a half, Palestinian women have died asking not for Mars, but for soap, water, and safety. If your feminism can’t hold both a rocket and a ration line, it’s not liberation; it’s selective celebration.
These are the Palestinian “prisoners” being exchanged for Israeli hostages. They are also children. Children who were stolen from their homes. Children who just want to hug their mothers. These are the boys who the media won’t even afford the dignity of being called children.
1. The majority of scholars have 4 principles to determine if the role is not permitted:
(i) If the service is a sin itself.
(ii)If the service directly leads to a sin being created, i.e. the *direct* counterparty benefiting from your service will use it in a sinful way,
Is your job Halal? 🤝
There are 2 key points of view for this:
1. Position of the majority of scholars
2. Position of Imam Abu Hanifa
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Arabic is one of the most romantic languages. It has at least 11 words for love and each of them conveys a different stage in the process of falling in love.
A thread on expressions of love in Arabic…