Ayesha Siddique Khan

A commoner who belongs to the mountains of Kashmir.

[Ayesha Siddique Khan @ayeshaskhan96]

"I will die, in autumn, in Kashmir, and the shadowed routine of each vein will almost be news, the blood censored." 🍁
- Agha Shahid Ali ✍️

[منهاج السنه @ManhajAsSunnah]

Sometimes your chest feels heavy, your mind restless & your heart scared of loss. But this ayah is like Allah telling you gently: "Leave it to Me. I have the Power, and I have the Wisdom. Nothing slips from My control. If it’s for you, I’ll bring it to you. If it’s not, I’ll

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[Agha Shahid Ali @AghaShaahidAli]

The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.

Write to me.
#HappyBirthdayShahid

[Ayesha Siddique Khan @ayeshaskhan96]

@asifnz @mahreenfaheem Ma'sha'Allah.
Congratulations. 🎉
A moment of great pride indeed. ☀️

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

Over the years, I developed a habit of subconsciously reciting واللہ المستعان whenever I faced something that disturbed my peace. But I was never aware of the background story of such powerful word until only recently when I heard about it in a lecture on Surah Yusuf.

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— Kashmir

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

Listen, you must keep romance alive by handing a man a copy of Kafka's Letters to Milena and saying "hope this helps".

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

- Mahmoud Darwish

[Faizan @faizannriaz]

تیری صورت سے ہے عالم میں بہاروں کو ثبات

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– Zelda Fitzgerald

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "Unfortunately; It Was Paradise"

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Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Born on Nakba Day”

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Mahmoud Darwish called “Diary of a Palestinian Wound ”

[• @Al__Quraan]

I wish I could hide you in my heart when the bombs fell.

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– Charles Bukowski, "I also like to look at ceilings," from The People Look Like Flowers At Last

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– Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

[Ayesha Siddique Khan @ayeshaskhan96]

"And ˹surely˺ your Lord will give so much to you that you will be pleased." ✨

[I. @i_Quercus]

"Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again."

- Vladimir Nabokov

[I. @i_Quercus]

"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us."

- Pablo Neruda

[I. @i_Quercus]

"So I wait for you like a lonely house,
Till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache."

- Pablo Neruda