Ali ✏️ Sufi Comics

I ❤️ to share Sufi stories, wisdom & insights using visuals. Working on my 8th book.

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@trq212 Eid Mubarak!

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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

The teacher who changed my life
didn't write a book
or give a speech.

She said one thing
on a Tuesday
& I never saw the world
the same way
again.

Most revolutions
are that quiet.

"He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has been given much good." Quran 2:269

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HEART CARE

The first lie
burns your face.

The second one
stings a little less.

By the tenth
you call it
"how the world works"
& laugh at anyone
who disagrees.

Take care of the thing
that felt the burn.
That was your compass.
You turned it off.

"No! Their hearts have been stained by what they have earned." Quran 83:14

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GRATITUDE

Gratitude is not a discipline.
It's what happens when
you notice you didn't earn the sun.

You didn't earn your lungs.
You didn't earn the mind
that earned your money.

Once you see it,
the only strange thing
is that you ever
forgot.

Be grateful to God, for any who is grateful does so to the profit of his own soul (Quran 31:12)

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Blind, deaf, and dumb evolution
could not have produced:

👁️ Eye
👂 Ear
🗣️ Voice

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You've probably asked this question before. Maybe as a kid, maybe recently. "Where did all this come from?", "How did it come into existence?"

And the answer we usually get is cause and effect. Atoms bumping into atoms, and the explanation ends there. That's it.

But we accept unseen causes in our everyday lives without a second thought. We trust gravity. We believe in love. We accept things we can't see all the time.

So why is it so hard to accept that there might be an unseen cause behind everything?

Al-Ghazali talks about this in "Alchemy of Happiness" and it really stuck with me.

We're comfortable with invisible forces when they fit our worldview, but the moment someone suggests a deeper unseen cause to the universe, we push back.

Made this animation to try and capture that idea.

[Ali ✏️ Sufi Comics @SufiComics]

You've probably asked this question before. Maybe as a kid, maybe recently. "Where did all this come from?", "How did it come into existence?"

And the answer we usually get is cause and effect. Atoms bumping into atoms, and the explanation ends there. That's it.

But we accept unseen causes in our everyday lives without a second thought. We trust gravity. We believe in love. We accept things we can't see all the time.

So why is it so hard to accept that there might be an unseen cause behind everything?

Al-Ghazali talks about this in "Alchemy of Happiness" and it really stuck with me.

We're comfortable with invisible forces when they fit our worldview, but the moment someone suggests a deeper unseen cause to the universe, we push back.

Made this animation to try and capture that idea.

[Ali ✏️ Sufi Comics @SufiComics]

@fortelabs I liked 1, but the combination of foreground and background colors in all of them needs to improve. It’s difficult to read the text.

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This thread was inspired by the chapter History as Interpretation in The Vision of Islam by Sachiko Murata & William C. Chittick.
https://t.co/p7Fi2MwqeW

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Is history just a record of what happened? Or does it carry deeper meaning?

Modern thought treats history as neutral “facts.” Islam sees history as signs of God, pointing toward unity and destiny.

Here’s an exploration into the Islamic view of history, inspired from this book👇

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In Islam, history is never meaningless.

Every event—rise of nations, collapse of empires, our own personal trials—is a sign.

The question is not just “What happened?” but “What is God showing us through this?”