I’m helping raise money for my dad’s restaurant and want to surprise him so he doesn’t have to close it. May Allaah bless him and his efforts and for you all that come across this 🌻
I appreciate all the kind and lovely efforts, supplications, and donations. I’m almost there just a little bit left! Keep reblogging this 💕
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Page from a tiny book in my house. This is my favorite one.
This prayer was sent for me.
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Working in a secondary school is pretty exhausting work. Most teachers are there from 7/7.30am and probably leave well after 5pm. The endless amounts of paperwork that come with teaching in this country is enough to put someone off alone. Teaching isn’t really about expanding the student’s mind, it’s about sticking them in a box and ticking off an endless list of governmental requirements. Then you factor in all the observations, the behaviour management side of it, the being a nagging parent/counsellor all in one and you start to question whether it’s really worth it all.
It’s definitely making me re-think a couple of things. But at the end of the day, I still quite enjoy it.. maybe that’s because I don’t have to do lessons plans or anything yet. I like that I can make some lasting relationships with the kids, especially with the year 7s and 8s. It’s also important to me that we have diverse teaching staff, because let’s face it, most teachers are white middle class women in inner city London. That needs to change, because I can already tell that representation matters a lot in the classroom, and because sometimes kids just understand someone who came from the same kind of background as them better.
Anyways, last week inshaaAllah and then we get two weeks off!
- The moment you want to give up is the moment you’re closest to getting what you’re seeking; sabr, have sabr.
- We may not understand these moments, but we must strive to understand the lessons behind them.
- Everything has a purpose.
- Take a step back, observe from afar.
- Silence their voices, listen to your heart. Understand your soul. Use logic.
- Everything has a purpose.
- He takes, but He gives in place wisdom. It may take years to understand that, but that’s why it’s wisdom.
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What does it say about a community that we literally have hoards of people clamoring to label Ahmed Mohamed “brown” when in any other instance, Sudanese (as well as other East Africans) are unmistakably categorized as black and alienated for being black? What does this erasure signify about the hardship many are clearly going through with envisioning genius/creativity and blackness simultaneously? What does it reveal about the wanton opportunism and selective consciousness of some Muslims, who’d rather absorb themselves in a narrative, even if it comes at the cost of the actual victim?
This is a child who will probably need psychotherapy to cope with this traumatic experience and his love of science and engineering was violently sabotaged. For no reason at all, a black Muslim child was profiled for having a bomb and had his first run-in with the school-to-prison-pipeline. This is the dualness of Black and Muslim identity in America, an existence so flippantly erased in every discourse. And it continues here.
If you actually need to erase this kid’s existence, who he is and as he is to exude sympathy and solidarity, truly reevaluate your character. And even a step further, critically attune yourself to how you’d treat Ahmed and his family in any other context, because maybe you’re no more humane than those who abused him.
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This 14-year-old Muslim American student was detained for bringing a homemade clock to school
Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student was arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to class, which school officials mistook for a bomb. Mohamed showed his engineering teacher first, but when the alarmed went off later in the day, that’s when the trouble started.
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MUST Read & #JeSuisAhmed: Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’
By Avi Selk via dallasmorningnews (Photo credit: Vernon Bryant)
IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.
Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case.
So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.
In the meantime, Ahmed’s been suspended, his father is upset and the Council on American-Islamic Relations is once again eyeing claims of Islamophobia in Irving.
Box of circuit boards
A box full of circuit boards sits at the foot of Ahmed’s small bed in central Irving. His door marks the border where the Mohamed family’s cramped but lavishly decorated house begins to look like the back room at RadioShack.
“Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do,” Ahmed said, fiddling with a cable while a soldering iron dangled from the shelf behind him.
He loved robotics club in middle school and was searching for a similar niche in his first few weeks of high school.
So he decided to do what he’s always done: He built something.
Ahmed’s clock was hardly his most elaborate creation. He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bedtime on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front.
He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for.
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”
The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.
They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”
Ahmed felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion. But the police kept him busy with questions.
The bell rang at least twice, he said, while the officers searched his belongings and questioned his intentions. The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said.
“They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
“I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
“He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
Police skepticism
Ahmed never claimed his device was anything but a clock, said police spokesman James McLellan. And police have no reason to think it was dangerous. But officers still didn’t believe Ahmed was giving them the whole story.
“We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” McLellan said. “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.”
Asked what broader explanation the boy could have given, the spokesman explained:
“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
Police led Ahmed out of MacArthur about 3 p.m., his hands cuffed behind him and an officer on each arm. A few students gaped in the halls. He remembers the shocked expression of his student counselor — the one “who knows I’m a good boy.”
Ahmed was spared the inside of a cell. The police sent him out of the juvenile detention center to meet his parents shortly after taking his fingerprints.
They’re still investigating the case, and Ahmed hasn’t been back to school. His family said the principal suspended him for three days.
“They thought, ‘How could someone like this build something like this unless it’s a threat?’” Ahmed said.
An Irving ISD statement gave no details about the case, citing student privacy laws.
‘Invent good things’
“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”
Mohamed is familiar with anti-Islamic politics. He once made national headlines for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran.
But he wasn’t paying much attention this summer when Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne became a national celebrity in anti-Islamic circles, fueling rumors in speeches that the religious minority was plotting to usurp American laws.
However, the Council on American-Islamic Relations took note.
“This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving’s government entities are operating in the current climate,” said Alia Salem, who directs the council’s North Texas chapter and has spoken to lawyers about Ahmed’s arrest.
“We’re still investigating,” she said, “but it seems pretty egregious.”
Meanwhile, Ahmed is sitting home in his bedroom, tinkering with old gears and electrical converters, pronouncing words like “ethnicity” for what sounds like the first time.
He’s vowed never to take an invention to school again.
never stop inventing, Ahmed. your mind is a gift. may Allah protect you.
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I just declined a job offer that I didn’t feel was the right fit for me. It was from a relative too, which could perhaps make me look ungrateful. I’m not. I was flattered that they even approached me but after thinking about it for some time, I don’t think this particular role would’ve enhanced any of the skills that I already have. Since it was a full time position too, I think it was best that I say no now rather than leave in six months.
I just hope that I don’t come to regret this in a few weeks.
Allaaahumma Baarik 👏🏽
Beautiful Recitation Of A Young Boy Named Abdilqadir
May Allah Grant Us Righteous Offsprings
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Arabic graffiti on a train in Dresden, Germany, welcoming refugees: اهلًا وسهلاً (ahlan wa sahlan - a warm welcome). (x)
In light of everything going on in Europe right now, this is a welcome sight.
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Abdullaah ibn Mas’ood (radiallaahu anhu) said:
“Whoever amongst you seeks to adopt a path should take to the way of the companions of Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam), for they possessed the most pious hearts of this Ummah, were the most profound in knowledge, the least constrained of this Ummah, and the most guided. They were the people whom Allah chose for the companionship of His Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) and the establishment of His religion. So know their rights and adhere to their guidance, for they indeed were upon the straight way.”
[Jaami’ Bayaan al-‘Ilm wa Fadlih (1810, 2/947)
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someone tell me why my sister’s friends are still chilling here at 10pm in their baatis?
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two little bits of news that made me happy today. One, my brothers finally managed to get some wifi connection so they sent me pics of themselves in Somalia and they met Hadraawi too! I can’t say that I am familiar with any of his poetry but y’know greatest Somali poet and all, so that’s cool. And two, a friend of mine from uni is getting married soon. She’s such an incredibly lovely person so I couldn’t be happier for her. May Allaah bless her marriage.
