Zakaria Abshir

⠀ ⠀ ⠀ What time ruins, man can repair.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of intelligence..... "the ability to think about your own thinking."

[Mustafa @Maksimiilyan]

"Bir akşam, çok konuşan bir genç, çarşı kapısında oturan, uzun ve beyaz sakallı yaşlı bir adam gördü. Onunla sohbet etmek istedi. Yanına gidip selam verdi

dedi ki: “Amca, sana bir soru sorabilir miyim?”

Yaşlı adam: “Sor evladım” dedi.

Genç: “Uyurken sakalını yorganın üstüne mi koyarsın, altına mı?”

Yaşlı adam bir süre sustu. Böyle bir şeyi daha önce hiç düşünmemişti.
“Bu gece dikkat ederim” dedi.

Gece olunca yaşlı adam sürekli bunu düşünmeye başladı. Ama bir türlü rahat edemedi:

Sakalını yorganın üstüne koyduğunda kendini boğuluyor gibi hissetti.
Altına koyduğunda da yine rahatsız oldu.

Sabaha kadar uyuyamadı. Ertesi gün erkenden pazara gidip o genci buldu.
Onu görünce yakalayıp dövmeye başladı

Ve dedi ki: “Ben kırk yıldır bu sakalla yaşıyorum, ne uyurken ne yerken ne içerken hiç rahatsız olmadım!

Ama dün gece senin yüzünden
uyuyamadım. Üste koysam boğuluyor gibi oldum, alta koysam yine rahat edemedim!

İnsan zihnini faydasız meselelerle meşgul ettiğinde bulanır; tabiî olanı problem hâline getirir ve huzurunu dışarıda değil, kendi düşüncelerinde kaybeder.

[أمثال عالمية @WorldProv]

الضباب لا يغيّر الطريق ؛ لمن يعرف وجهته جيدًا ."

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

Portraits from Harar:

The City of Saints & the Civilizational Bedrock of Islam in the Somali Peninsula.

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

From the @newlinesmag archives:
In 1962, the Tunisian president, Habib Bourguiba, drank a glass of orange juice live on TV during Ramadan, sparking decades of debate over fasting that helped to remake Tunisian politics, writes Ahmed Nadhif. https://t.co/rBR3nUnHDr

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Ai Weiwei: "I used to advocat that Western leaders should publicly condemn China on human rights. But today I have completely changed my view. The West is not even qualified to criticize China."

[Radio Generation @RadioGenKe]

Ahmed Siyad~ The only way you will be replaced by Ai is if you do not adopt and use it.
@axmedalxender @lady_Mathai
#TheRetroBox
#HomeOfHardTruths

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

There are few ways of telling such cultural tales better than on the big screen. Visually poetic & emotionally evocative, The Flames of Tradition is less a feature film than a cultural diary of sorts.

Read about a film I produced on👇🏻

@Somali_Stream

https://t.co/rCfZfqkPRR

[FCPA Billow Kerrow @BillowKerrow]

Jamia Mosque Nairobi marks 100 years exactly today! On 7th September 1925, Maulana Sayed Abdullah Shah laid the foundation stone. Construction was completed in 1933. Jamia, now the country's largest & national Mosque, has shaped the role of Islam in the country. May Allah grant it's founders Jannatul Firdous.

[whoops @walaalwhoops]

Surprisingly well made short film that's based on a true story about a Somali/Russian family in Leningrad during the rupture between the Soviet Union and Somalia in 1977. Not any sort of film critic, but I'd rate it worth the watch.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven't, respect by others is a necessity." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

Reading books has an equivalent effect. Either travel, or read.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

~ Cicero

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

@Khalid__mahdi @axmedalxender Successful facilitations*

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

@Khalid__mahdi @axmedalxender Hi cousins 😂😂 It is called facilitation fees and he knows it!

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

@Zakaria_tahow @Counsel_Nassir @ahmednasirlaw Congratulations Zakaria, you made Bella very proud. Onwards and upwards!

[M.M. Dhoore @dhoorebbc]

#Somalia and #UNESCO Partner to Digitize 70 Years of Radio Mogadishu Archives.

https://t.co/xdDEot5gVz

[Zakaria Abshir @_ZakAbshir]

@sagal_musa @Somali_Lawyer @SomPundit @axmedalxender @EIshmael_ @cakesandvibes @DeeqAfrika @oxford92 @SolidMali It must’ve been an extended break! Happy to see you back on the train. Thank you sister