From Husayn ibn Ali to Muhammad ibn Ali and the Hashimites with him:
"The world now seems as though it never was, while the Hereafter appears as though it alone has ever been."
The power if his last message lies in its brevity. Imam al-Husayn (a.s) is expressing that in the face of ultimate truth, the fleeting world becomes insignificant, while the Hereafter appears as the only enduring reality.
Snow leopards are so solitary that biologists never bothered creating a collective noun for them. No "pride." No "pack." They patrol territories up to 1,000 square kilometers alone across the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Tibetan Plateau.
So when CCTV catches them cuddling like house cats, there's a reason.
The tail is the key. Snow leopard tails reach nearly a meter long, almost the full length of their body, and they're thicker than any other big cat's tail because they store fat for both insulation and energy reserves. At 5,000 meters elevation where temperatures hit -40°C, a snow leopard wraps that tail around its face and body like a built-in scarf. What this footage is showing is communal thermoregulation: body heat pooling between animals whose fur already provides one of the most effective insulation systems in nature.
That fur runs up to 12 centimeters long on the belly. Double-layered: a soft woolly undercoat trapping warm air against the skin, coarser guard hairs on top blocking wind and snow. Their nasal cavity is wider and shorter than other cats', warming -40° air before it reaches the lungs. Paws are naturally oversized and fur-padded, distributing weight across deep snow like snowshoes. Metabolic rate runs higher than similar-sized cats, generating more body heat at rest just to survive the altitude.
Roughly 4,000 to 6,500 remain in the wild across 12 countries. Researchers who study them for years sometimes never see one in person. They're called the "ghost of the mountains" for a reason.
What you're watching is one of the loneliest animals on earth choosing not to be.
“Have you become a Muslim, Goethe?”
“If Islam means submission to God, then we all live and die in Islam.”
“So, yes…?”
“There is no truth greater than the Oneness of God.”
“So—“
“In the valley below, flowers spring beneath his ﷺ footsteps,
The meadow in his breath finds life.”