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the crash out i experience from finishing this book will be unheard of

“I was to learn later that Elijah Muhammad’s tales […] infuriated the Muslims of the East. While at Mecca, I reminded them that it was their fault, since they themselves hadn’t done enough to make real Islam known in the West. Their silence left a vacuum into which any religious faker could step and mislead our people.”

started calling my time with this book “evenings/mornings with malcolm” it will be a sad day when i’m finished reading it

“Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

salam friends! i’m on substack :) i’ll be sharing my reflections on there, here’s my profile link:

https://substack.com/@swgdy?r=6fvo5u&...

Muslim women need to be aware of the characters of the mothers of the believers; daughters of the Prophet ﷺ & the female companions. This book is great in displaying exactly why; it’s enough to feel seen as a woman in the context of the early islamic times.

“The book itself, as printed today, covers less than 500 small pages. It was revealed over 23 years, which means a rough average of less than 25 pages a year, or two pages a month.”

“Perhaps the worst thing about occupied cities is that their children cannot make fun of them. Who could make fun of Jerusalem! Now, letters to our addresses there will not reach us. They took the addresses of our homes and the dust of our drawers.”

“radwa waited seventeen years for me to come back to our house, and when i came back i brought all those seventeen years with me. and there were seventeen years with her too.”

“when you hear on the radio and read in newspapers and magazines and books and speeches the words ‘the occupied territories’ year after year, festival after festival, summit after summit, you think it’s somewhere at the end of the earth. you think there is absolutely no way you can get to it. do you see how close it is? how touchable? how real? i can hold it in my hand, like a handkerchief”

“Passion is like a firmly rooted tree, the eradication of which we should be dedicated. If you do not uproot passion [jn your youth] because of weakness and procrastinate, - knowing very well that the longer the wait, the stronger the tree, - the more firmly planted it will be and the weaker [with age] you become to uproot it.

Whatever you did not do while young, you certainly will not do in old age.”

1. call yourself to account while you are in comfort

2. intention setting prior to an act allows better outcomes (am i doing this for my nafs/ego?; is the devil playing a role in my intention?)

3. when you recognize that your intention may be in the wrong place, pause, realign, continue

4. be introspective in disobedience and grateful for obedience (you are guided to them by Allah’s mercy, not your own ability)

"Had there been within the heavens and earth gods besides God, they both would have been ruined."

In this verse, God tells us what would have happened had there been more than one object of worship in the heavens and the earth: corruption and ruin. If the heavens and the earth, in all their majesty, would have been ruined by taking more than one object of worship, what about the fragile human heart?

“Therefore, the way to protect the heart is to keep it soft, and to strengthen the fortress surrounding it. That fortress is built with the remembrance of God. And the heart is nourished with the oxygen and food of athkar. Every day should consist of a strict adherence to the aforementioned thikr pre-scription: Salah, daily athkar, and Quran.”