#i am a Muslims and i do do Muslim things

[paintedpineleaf]

saw a tiktok that was like in japan they just put the phones and devices and stuff there in the apple store they dont connect them to anything to prevent theft because the rates of theft are so low and the caption on twitter was like can anyone explain why this is and why its not like this in america and one of the replies was because japan relies to shame to make people comply while america relies on guilt (i don't remember the exact words they used but that was the gist of it) like in japan if you do something wrong then you bring shame on your family and your parents and everyone but in america you are just supposed to feel guilty for your own crime and thats it kinda.

and now i saw a tweet that was from bollywood twitter and they were talking about how cute kareena and saif are the way her eyes light up when she sees him or talks about him and there was a video of him helping her up and she's smiling like she's the luckiest happiest person on the planet and just looked so in love and happy and it immediately hit me.

my mom always talks about how saif is a musljm guy who married a hindu (kareena) and its so wrong of him and what religion are their kids going to be and she should marry someone who's not a muslim and he should find a good muslim woman for himself and stuff. and like.

theyre so in love, they love each other, look at how fucking happy they are, she looks like she's gotten the world, he looks like he's gotten the world, and all you can talk about is how they cant be right for each other because of their families.

you do so much to please your family and to not bring shame to your family you forget that youre a person and youre alive and you can live for yourself. im not saying the american individualism is something that we should try to attain either, like there's definitely a middle ground somewhere, but by god does the shame thing fuck you up like ten times more.

[hilacopter]

leftists have created for themselves a situation where they have to either be islamophobic or antisemitc, because to them anything even mildly criticising islam or muslims and not treating them as a pure, primitive and peaceful culture is islamophobic. acknowledging jewish oppression under muslim rule or our indigeneity to the levant interferes with their narrative of the perfect noble savages, so now they have to choose between supporting jews or continuing to be unconditionally islamophilic. guess what they chose.

[hussyknee]

The very specific paralyzing fear as a person of colour with OCD, that you might be acting like a white person to other marginalized people.

[atimefordragons]

if it is true that Joost punched someone from the zionist's delegation, I will use all my votes for Netherlands.

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

which egg would treat the masjid shoe racks as their own personal shoe store (because we cant wear shoes inside the masjid we put our shoes on a shoe rack outside the door and SOMETIMES you can get your shoes stolen, so its like a meme where ppl take pictures of the shoe racks and post them with the captions like "going shoe shopping")

Ramadan mubarak! (Sorry that this is so late in the season)

[fandomtrashbag]

No no you do not get it I am SO tired

You can be queer and Muslim

How the fuck would I know? I am one.

Like genuinely I do not know how hard it is to grasp that you can sin and that there may be different levels of sin but you can still sin and be Muslim like that's just how it is

If a revert who was a straight up killed people brought themself to the path of Islam and SINCERELY reverted like they're following everything to the best of their ability. They are theoretically forgiven for all their past sins (I say theoretically because Allah is who can decide if they are indeed forgiven and if they're being sincere that's just not up to any human to judge)

Like do you. Genuinely know. The sheer amount of Muslims that drink smoke partake in drugs have sex willy nilly (pun intended) have committed crimes like murder and rape and STILL think they're better than the queer community??? I'm not judging them here all I am saying that if I am going to see those who do these things being whole heartedly accepted in society but not a queer Muslim that's just trying to be connected to Allah I just think that's unfair my dude

Like why must we separate people from prayer from the Ummah are we not supposed to be a community?? How is mass ostracisation disownment exile supposed to be a community??? How is conservation therapy and peer pressure supposed to support the individual when they are receiving brain chemistry altering mental trauma. It's why queer Muslims LEAVE Islam. How is me being bisexual and non binary a threat my dearest siblings in Islam I am simply trying to pray here??!!!

I went the whole "born Muslim to Atheist to Agnostic to Pagan to revert" pipeline my dude and I have never felt as much mental peace in these trying times than I have before I reverted. It is NOT UP TO US TO DETERMINE WHO IS WORTHY OF ALLAH'S FORGIVENESS AND WHO IS NOT. A hadith talks about the sins of an Israeli prostitute being completely forgiven because she gave a dehydrated dog water. And I can guarantee you every single queer Muslim is very aware of the story of Lut AS. We've read it and many turned away from the Ummah forever because of it. We KNOW. you don't have to tell us like you are preaching to the metaphorical choir please just let us exist in peace thank you

[swagging-back-to]

"white men literally go and kill their entire families when they've decided they no longer want to be a husband and a father yet y'all on here talking abt immigrants, black people, and arab men. your own husband/boyfriend is more likely to rape and murder you than any of those demographics" and yet arab, black, and asian males all have the societal right to honor kill any woman in their family or town who does anything out of line.

the white males will at least have the chance to face legal consequence. literally cant even fathom your logic rn girl

[altschmerzes]

you've mentioned having other POVs coming up for wriggle up on dry land- would love to see any dani or sam pov snippets, if you've got em :eyes:

YES, i have some of a scene with sam i was working on earlier that i really love. i'll put most of it under a cut bc it's pretty long but i had a great time writing this and wanted to include like. the whole Section it was from.

Sam never used to be a morning person. It was always difficult to get himself out of bed, especially when he was small. His father had made up a song about it that he would sing when rousing Sam for the day. Ola would walk into his son’s room already singing it, quiet at first and then louder and louder the longer Sam insisted on burying his face in his pillow and refusing to acknowledge being awake. He’d always gotten up at the end, usually with a groaned insistence that his father stop embarrassing him because he’s up, he’s up, and there had been less complaining involved the older he got. It was easier to go along with once Sam understood the necessity of making use of what time the day afforded to him, especially with football and school and other things leaving him increasingly feeling like every moment of the day must be preciously guarded and budgeted appropriately.

Lately, though, his perspective on the earliest hours of the day has shifted significantly. Now, mornings are the one part of the day that belong only to Sam. He doesn’t struggle to greet them now, no matter how startling it is for his alarm to go off and how heavy his body feels as he lays in bed in the moments before rising. The resentment he had once felt with the relentlessness of the arrival of the new day and the necessity of getting up to participate in it is replaced with gratitude. When he first wakes, there are a few moments of listening to his alarm go off where Sam can almost hear the sound of Ola’s voice, singing the song he’d made up so many years ago. Mornings make him miss home, and his father in particular, with a fierceness that makes his chest ache, but he appreciates them for that. The homesickness hurts, the longing for the life he had loved so much and left behind to be here throbbing like his lungs are bruised, but the pain is a reminder of what is important to him and why. Not a day goes by that Sam doesn’t think of the things that are the most important to him, and he wouldn’t want to forget even if he could. The schedule of a Premier League footballer also makes praying on time complicated and difficult at points. This is especially the case when travelling for away matches against clubs whose facilities do not have a dedicated prayer room. Mornings though, the earliest parts of the morning before the sunrise, are Sam’s no matter what, and he holds them precious, going through the well-worn steps of Fajr alone in his house or a hotel room, always on time. He has developed an ever-growing fondness for the cold blue of the watery light that seeps across the horizon just before the sun rises, and for the way his mother always sends him a text when she had finished with her own prayers, every day without fail. There is no time difference between Lagos and London half of the year, and only one hour between them the other half. Although the exact time of the sun’s rising isn’t the same, it’s been a comfort to Sam never the less to think of his family and friends at home going about their lives in tandem with his, despite the difference separating them. When he kneels and presses his forehead to the fabric of the prayer mat the imam of his childhood mosque had presented him before he left, a gift from the community and a token of their pride in him, he imagines his mother and father alongside him doing the same. For those moments, it’s possible to believe that he never left.

[nthflower]

İt's funny how sexualised dust ist. And how she is always pretty and sexy like yeah she is etc. But she is in modesty. She wears an niqab. Whole point is being modest and not attractive.

Like even with hijab you always need to be careful like your tunic is not too short or your curves are not so recognisable , your things are not too tight and she is drawn always like body latex suit but add skirt.

I even saw someone say to her her niqab makes her mysterious and sexy like this is so???

[rumplestiltrin]

must it take white people to report to you that what we say about our own queer experiences is correct? or will you get your head out of your ass and listen to what poc have to say about their own god damn experiences.

[medicinemane]

Really really don't get why so many people seem to have this burning hatred for Ukraine where they'll just... bring them up randomly purely to drag them through the mud and it's like... ok... but... do you actually know a single thing about Ukraine or what's been happening there?

Do you for instance remember when a major dam was destroyed by russia causing massive ecological damage?

Like I'm dead serious here, can you tell me a single thing that's happened in Ukraine in the last 2 years? Can you in any way demonstrate any basic understanding of the situation?

Cause if not... why do you think you should have an opinion on it, especially if your opinion is gonna be how awful people getting bombed are?

Just legit bothers me and... even more so bothers me the number of smart and caring people I see doing this. Basically I'm not even trying to be rude here, I'm trying to remind you to pay attention and remember that not everything you read on the internet is true, a tumblr post isn't a source unless they're giving you a reputable source

Cause like me? I can go track you down articles about the Nova Kakhovka dam being destroyed, and I can talk about all the reason why it's pretty clear that russia destroyed it

Can you do the same for me? Can you back up your claim about Ukraine with something concrete?

In many ways I'm not even asking you to support Ukraine, I get we have a limit to how much we can focus on, it's ok if you focus on your cause and I focus on mine and... both of us giving our undivided attention, maybe we both make some small impact on the world

What I'm asking is you don't be an asshole for no reason. You don't need to throw Ukraine under the bus. Don't you think your cause stands up on it's own two feet?

And again I'm not Ukrainian, I don't know as well as someone there, though... I spare you a lot of the stuff that crosses my dash because I don't want to burn people out with horrible stuff, but please understand it's worse than you probably think

So no, not Ukrainian, but I'll tell you why I'm still worth listening to: I've followed this every day since the invasion began. I keep my ear to the ground. I do know a fair bit and again can back what I have to say up

Anyway, my plea is to just not be a dick to people for no reason. The correct number of bombed civilians is zero, that's my stance

[fragiledate]

that feeling of invisibility is so horrible

[killa-trav]

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[boldlyshadowytrash]

oh- my- god.., I didn't drink anything and it's 5:00am..

it's 5:00am and I didn't drink anything....

[whimsycore]

Literally nothing in my life makes sense and there’s no escape from it. Even when I try to put my head down and ignore everything.

[galaxyspark-6e16]

so a bit of an update because i don't think i will post anything viewing the following; university is fine, my pc won't work and my phone got stolen so there's that too, so not a great week soo far