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“O Turner of the hearts, affirm my heart upon Your religion.”

اللّٰهُمَّ أَصْلِحْ قَلْبِي وَعَمَلِي

“O Allāh rectify my heart and my action”

اللهُمَّ طَهِّرْ قَلْبِي مِنْ كُلِّ سُوْءٍ

من فوقهم الطائرات ومن خلفهم الصواريخ وعلى يسارهم البحر وعلى يمينهم النار والدبابات وذاهبون للمجهول.💔🇵🇸

فلسطيـن..

poems for palestine｜🇵🇸 🫒

“defiance”, mahmoud darwish

“i grant you refuge”, hiba abu nada

“a lullaby for gaza”, tayseer abu odeh

“who remembers the palestinians?”, sophia armen

Central Gaza, Dec 2023

SOBBING WITHOUT SOUND

I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.

I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no buzzing drones.

I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,

or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.

All around me are nothing

but silent walls

and people sobbing

without sound.

Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

if i die and leave and get martyred in this war, i will not forgive the Arab leaders who failed us. we lived through difficult days without food or water, and my hair is turning white even though i'm so young. may god never forgive you or give you relief. i swear i will tell the creator about you.

forgive me, mom. i love you so much. please don't be sad when i die.

my message to the people of egypt, yemen, jordan, algeria, libya, lebanon, tunisia, sudan, somalia, malaysia - please don't leave Gaza alone. please, please promise me to take care of her. i love you all, please don't leave us.

if anyone finds my message, please spread it.

the martyr, godwilling, Mohammad Abdulqader Husseini