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"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of male and female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know and cooperate with one another."
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I am as My servant thinks I am. I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm's length, I draw near to him a fathom's length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.
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Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him.
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Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
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Little we see in Nature that is ours;
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I will not
dance to your war
drum. I will
not lend my soul nor
my bones to your war
drum. I will
not dance to your
beating. I know that beat.
It is lifeless. I know
intimately that skin
you are hitting. It
was alive once
hunted stolen
stretched. I will
not dance to your drummed
up war. I will not pop
spin beak for you. I
will not hate for you or
even hate you. I will
not kill for you. Especially
I will not die
for you. I will not mourn
the dead with murder nor
suicide. I will not side
with you nor dance to bombs
because everyone else is
dancing. Everyone can be
wrong. Life is a right not
collateral or casual. I
will not forget where
I come from. I
will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved
near and our chanting
will be dancing. Our
humming will be drumming. I
will not be played. I
will not lend my name
nor my rhythm to your
beat. I will dance
and resist and dance and
persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than
death. Your war drum ain’t
louder than this breath.
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In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you
Had I told the sea
What I felt for you
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.
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السلام عليكم اخنا الكرام سبحان الله عجبت ان تحسن على خطكم لله تعالى
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Beautiful I like it
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good
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ASSALAM
JAZAKALLAH
NICE WORK .
ALL THE BEST
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Salaam, great job, masha´allah !!
Fresh style, i like that someone took it to the next level, really, the original way !!!
Peace
R
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I love your art, it’s so pure and true. In fact I wouldn’t even be able to explain my admiration for your work. It’s lyrical and at the same time very determined. My wordchoice doesn’t really make sense in this context… Anyway, your work has spoken to me so much, that I could probably write an essay about it and still need more words to express my opinion.
Masha’Allah
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Salams
Simply brilliant!
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Mashallah, very beautiful, simple yet profound .. love it!
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great name so wonderful composition beautyful nice work
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This is AMAZING!!! I am a volunteer at Islamic Sunday School in NC, currently working on designing a logo. I would love to use your work. Are the images free to use or i need to pay? Please let me know.
JAK
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My goodness, I must tell you I am speechless, your work is absolutely superb, I’ve always had a great fondness for this sort of flowing script that artists of the Arabias are so adept at. Truly amazing and inspiring, it is rich and vibrant wrapped up in subtlty, contained within genuine brilliance.
From a Welshman.
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MashAllah…that’s awesome. I love your work. Do you think it will be alright if i take a print out of this image and frame it for my personla use? Or could i offer hadya and get it from you? Thanks and keep up the excellent work.
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so beautiful sure
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so simple…yet so amazing…
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amazing keep up the good work
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Masha’Allah
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SALAM ….
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MASHALLA.
nice and very beautyfull work.
wish u all the best
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It’s a simple & beautifule nice creation. Colors is also too good.
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Its is beautiful and has inspired my new logo. keep up the good work insha allah. Insah allah i will share my logo with you as well
Take care
As sallamu alaikum
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oh woow that’s beautiful ! How did u achieve the colours there in one stroke? Hats off to you^^
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Journey to Allah
Allahu Akbar
Masha’Allah
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Lovely, very nice work. Is it for sale?
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Subhan’allah…..simply beautiful..
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Subhan’allah….simply beautiful
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I like what i see. Even thought it’s so little and their isn’t much in the pic but i love the colores it really gets me thinking.. keep the good work up
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Awesom….
MashaAllah
its Simple and Beautiful….
im also trying to copy it if u dont mind,….
its simply superb
JazaakAllah
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This is really very pretty. i love the strokes. looks like oil on canvas!
Awsome creativity!!
Love this Great Word tooo!!
Allah!
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Mashallah, very beautiful, simple yet profound .. love it!
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it looks wonderful and the colours that you used are perfect , overall thats a peiece of Art
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MashAllah beautiful…..
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so wonderful,,, so simple,,,,,,,,,, it touched me i wish u do more and more and make available wide scale….. do travel exhibitions …… i really wish that.
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