"“Not one of you can (truly) believe if you do not want for your (believing) brother what you want for yourself.” [Bukhari, Al-Iman (Faith); 7] "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFuyK65Etg
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/sami-yusuf-gift-love-lyrics.html
Interfaith song for Mawlid holiday :)

The Walters Art Museum, USA has a painting of a woman with a giant flashlight which mesmerizes a deer. This painting originates back from Dravidia (ancient India)

I wonder how the flashlight is working? 🤔

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"There was once an Indian shaykh who gave out cures from the Quran. Specific verses to be recited for specific ailments. Ruqya essentially. "We reveal from the Quran that which is a healing and a mercy for the believers." At the time, the British had come in with their own naturalist worldview and many of the elite began turning their backs on the Quran.
There was a physician in the same neighborhood and every time he would prescribe a medicine to his patients, they would say, I also recite such-and-such a verse given to me by the shaykh. Frustrated, the physician visited the shaykh.
"Shaykh, we now have real medicine; we do not need to rely on placebo-effect beliefs through these verses. It's all superstition," said the physician.
The shaykh replied, "We support both medicine and ruqya, since Allah called His Book a cure."
"But shaykh," said the doctor growing agitated, "these are nothing but words. Illnesses are physical and need physical treatments."
The shaykh leaned over and said, "If you think the Quran is just words then you have no faith, you are truly ignorant, and to make matters worse, you're quite ugly as well, which means your mother and father must have been ugly too!"
"What!?" exclaimed the phsycian. "What manners are these? What are you saying??"
Immediately, the shaykh grabbed the man's pulse and said, "Wow, your heart is racing, your face is red, and your body is heated. All physical reactions resulting from mere words that I uttered. Know that words represent meanings, and meanings have the power to alter the physical. Allah is the creator of words, meanings, causes, & effects and has decreed that His uncreated Word is a cure to physical illnesses. We also promote medical treatment so that the likes of you can remain employed."
By dr. Shadee Elmasry"

Russia will now create at least 23 new protected conservation areas across the width of the world’s largest country, as part of renewed efforts to protect nature and fight global warming, President Vladimir Putin has announced. https://www.rt.com/russia/537245-conservation-areas-creation-plan/

"Days before his wedding in 2012, Bassel was detained and forcibly disappeared by the Syrian regime. A huge online #FreeBassel campaign was mounted for his release and after surviving solitary confinement and torture he resurfaced in Adra, a Syrian state prison. There, Noura and Basel wed by exchanging vows through a prison net. Noura’s father placed the ring on her finger and Noura wore a blue dress, her favourite colour. Noura smuggled love poems to Bassel in his prison, which he translated from Arabic to English and published in a book."

https://globalvoices.org/2015/02/23/a-love-letter-to-jailed-syrian-palestinian-bassel-khartabil/
"To those of us who know and love Syria, what happens in this country pains us deeply, and even more so as it becomes increasingly invisible to the rest of the world. We are hurt by the more than 200,000 killed, the hundreds of thousands of detainees, the displaced, the refugees, those who continue to suffer unimaginable torture in the government’s prisons, those who suffer the tyranny of groups such as ISIS who have their own agendas and interests, and who are enemies of Syrian richness and diversity. These unique and irreplaceable people, have become numbers and statistics so vast that the UN has failed to register them.

In particular, indifference hurts. The images that no longer provoke indignation, the documentation of atrocities that accumulate in unvisited video files. The selective empathy of those who classify the victims as imperialists or anti-imperialists, legitimate or illegitimate based on geo-strategic politics, and of those who add the denial of pain to the pain.

It hurts more than the loss of a loved one, because there is no therapy for the loss of a country. The wounds never heal. To those who love her, the hurt felt by Syria is never-ending."