Whatnots &Blah.

bintghuraba-deactivated20150707:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ

O you who believe, take care of your souls. - 5:105

tashahhud:

أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأشهد أن محمداً رسول الله

I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah

pungent-petrichor:

mockingjaysinmyhead:

gordacrybaby:

bepeu:

you ever been so stressed that youre calm

this is my constant state

my chill is fake

“How are you so calm?!”
“I’ve passed beyond stressed, beyond hysteria, into the grey misty indifference of complete shutdown of all but emergency services in my brain.”

muslimahhx:

Ya Allah, I am lost.
Bring me back to You.

partytilfajr:

You guys need to stop randomly reading Hadith.

First, there’s a classification system, and you read fabricated ones, a lot.

Second, you read translations, and those are terrible.

Third, you guys need to stop treating Bukhari and Muslim as perfect. They’re not, there is only one Perfect Book, and that’s The Qur’an. [See note before fighting me]

Fourth, you need to stop treating all Hadith equally. They’re not. Some Hadith take precedence over others, because there’s a lot of context when it comes to Hadith. I’d say even more than Qur’an, because when you say something, you say it set to the backdrop of your relationship with that person, the setting, the time, etc. The Prophet was no different, and to not account for that, will mean you’ll misunderstand what was said.

If I said “Egyptians are annoying” to my mother, because I was in City Stars for too long and felt like collapsing in the middle of it and crying out of sheer annoyance, that would make my phrase mean something very different than if you just took it out of context. Right? Right.

Finally, stop freaking out over a random Hadith you read, ask someone who can actually answer your question, and stop freaking out. You defend your favorite celebrity after they steal a nuclear submarine and threaten to begin World War III, you can give Islam the benefit of the doubt too.

Note on third point: Read this from Dr. Jonathan Brown and then don’t message me:

“Muslims scholars have said for centuries before that [the 20th century], that everything is up for debate, everything is up for evaluation… [the issue over questioning Hadith] is what it meant, what is behind what you are doing? Scholars get together and criticize Hadiths in Bukhari and no one will have a problem, [so] what’s the problem? The problem is that the criticism against Bukhari and Muslim [today, popularly] are really criticisms against the Islamic ethical system, the idea of scripture, the idea of religion being being the main reference in your life, the idea that you should overturn things in the past because of fads in the present. That’s why there is such defensiveness about those books, and defensiveness about reevaluating Hadith. It’s not because scholars reject reevaluating Hadith; they never did. But they are afraid that they are opening a door to modern ephemeral fads, or ephemeral beliefs, overturning centuries of consensus.”