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Hope of Healing by Alice Walker

for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love.

In our despair that justice is slow
we sit with heads bowed

wondering
how
even whether
we will ever be healed.

Perhaps it is a question
only the ravaged
the violated
seriously ask.
And is that not now
almost all of us?

But hope is on the way.

As usual Hope is a woman
herding her children
around her
all she retains of who
she was; as usual
except for her kids

she has lost almost everything.

Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.
Along with her home, her employment, her parents, her olive trees, her grapes. The peace of independence; the reassuring noises of ordinary
neighbors.

Hope rises, She always does,
did we fail to notice this in all the stories
they've tried to suppress?

Hope rises,
and she puts on her same
unfashionable threadbare coat
and, penniless, she flings herself
against the cold, polished, protective chain mail
of the very powerful
the very rich – chain mail that mimics
suspiciously silver coins
and lizard skin -
and all she has to fight with is the reality of what was done to her;
to her country; her people; her children;
her home.
All she has as armor is what she has learned
must never be done.
Not in the name of War
and especially never in the
name of Peace.

Hope is always the teacher
with the toughest homework.

Our assignment: to grasp
what has never been breathed in our stolen
Empire
on the hill:

Without justice, we will never
be healed.

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Ghazalah said:
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^Good point. But sometimes I see quotes, which are gems, but ahadith and Quranic ayats are so much better, so I get the urge to post them here. If that even makes sense :exhausted

'Do not let difficulties fill you with anxiety;
After all, it is only in the darkest nights that the stars shine more brightly.'

~Ali (RA)
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Sorrow makes a man old before his time.
 
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There is nothing wrong with seeking forgiveness (by saying astaghfirullah) without restricting it to a set number of times for the purpose of repentance along with facilitation of marriage and wealth:

{ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا * يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا * وَيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ }
“Seek forgiveness of your Lord; Indeed, He is Oft-Forgiving; He will send rain to you in abundance; and give you increase in wealth and children.” [Nūḥ 71:10-12]

لا بأس بالاستغفار بلا عدد معين بقصد التوبة مع تيسير الزواج والمال(استغفروا ربكم إنه كان غفارا يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا ويمددكم بأموال وبنين)

- Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al-Tarefe
 
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"When we suffer a loss, its the Almighty's way of drawing us closer to Him, yet we sometimes turn away from Him and lose much more."

--Mufti Ismail Menk
 
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When you put your trust in Allah, even the plots of your enemies can become a stepping stone for your path to paradise.

-AbdulBary Yahya
 
Words of Wisdom: One of the Salaf said: "I worshiped Allah for fifty years, and I didn't find the 'sweetness' of Ibadah (worship) until I did three things:*
a. I abandoned pleasing people; and worked on speaking with the truth.*
b. I abandoned bad company and friends; and found good friends instead.
c. I abandoned chasing after the beauties of this life and worked on acquiring the beauty of the next life.

May Allah make us among those who would seek the next life,Ameen
 
Once the spring to the old roots, flowers were dead two somehow.
Still waters run deep, Cang Sheng Tage; Sansei wanes, once joys and sorrows.
Lights the stars, voice Yao Yao, song endless chaos flames.
Flowery Meijuan, Homecoming, got back to the past, did not return.
Dark clouds cover month, absolutely deserted track, say such a lonely.
This time I leave you, the wind, the rain, at night; your smile, I put a waved, a lonely road will show up to two.
Not the old days, the situation is difficult to break. Heart like double screen, there are thousands of guitar.
This non-stars like last night, for whom wind Lu Li Zhong Xiao.
Years of life and death, do not consider, since the memorable, Trinidad solitary graves, Nowhere bleak.
Beautiful butterfly, butterfly fly, but the sea eventually.
And finally as a misty rain that covered the world, after Xie Ronghua, but a, mountains and rivers forever silence.
Elegance is a mean flow of sand, old is a Love.
.
 
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
 
“Man in The early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of thought and civilization that man has achieved, and is not regressive. It’s the removal of clothes again that is regressive back to ancient TIMES.” -Tawakkul Karman-



 
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Ibn Al-Qayyim has a powerful statement:

"Sins need to be eradicated through the internal fire of regret in this life or the fire of hell in the hereafter.
 
"The smart is one who always feel stupid"

"Those who can relate to The Purest (Allah swt) are those who always purify themselves"

"The happy people are those who know their hometown"

"When my house knocked by poverty, I open the window and jumped out"

"The real friends are those who tell the truth, not those who justify your words"

"If living is just living, hogs in the forest are living too. If working is just working, apes are working too"


Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (HAMKA)
 
"Compassion and tolerance is identity card of Muslim"

"Learning and teaching the Qur'an is like one beggar telling another beggar where to get food"

"We do not inherit the sins of anyone, and there is no one who will inherit our sins"

"We can measure our similarity with the Prophet by seeing our sensitivity to the suffering of others"

"A father's greatest legacy is to make his family as role model"


Kyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan (founder of Muhammadiyah Indonesia)
 

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