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Mona Ramadan's avatar

I'm actually crying... It brought some memories, hidden one. Thank you Awwal, this is amazing! 🤍

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

I’m sorry Mona. We will get Justice. Wait, with me. This is for you. For all of the children, all the families. All of us 🇵🇸

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

As salamu alaikum Wasia, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you 🤎🇵🇸

The Qur’an has all the answers.

We will keep praying, we keep fighting, we will keep striving—‘cause unlike these oppressors, we know what true victory is,

we believe.

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Wasia's avatar

SubhanAllah Awwal your writing never fails to move the heart. It’s crazy this is the fourth(?) thing I’ve read just this week alone referring to the parallels between Surah Buruj and not just the atrocities in Palestine but for the global ummah— it just goes to show how the Qur’an stays relevant. And what a way to humanize all our martyrs. We see the images of these children circulating but their names are often forgotten until they become more statistics. JazakAllah khair for this powerful piece ✊🏼

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Eimear Corscadden's avatar

The Truth... makes Believers of us all.... a global ummah, of Compassion and Goodness. It is indeed the only thing to believe in. Thank you so much for this 💚

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Dx's avatar

So beautiful, so heartbreaking, and so inspiring.

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Fatima Altalib's avatar

This poem burnt my heart. Have you also performed it, perhaps? I think it would also be very powerful as a spoken word.

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Opening My Heart's avatar

As one of the many people who converted to Islam since the beginning of this genocide, thank you for this beautiful piece of writing.

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CHPD's avatar
May 4Edited

A Crime That the World Must Remember

On 29 January 2024, Hind Rajab’s car was hit by Israeli tank fire. Six members of her family died instantly. Hind, wounded and terrified, remained alive for hours, whispering into a phone with PRCS dispatchers: “I’m so scared… please come.”

The ambulance sent to save her never made it. It too was shelled and burned. The two medics inside were killed instantly. When rescue workers returned ten days later, they found Hind’s small body lying next to her cousin Layan. Their voices had gone quiet.

—The Hind Rajab Foundation

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

No you are wrong! She was killed by Israeli tank fire, not by a tank driving over the vehicle.

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CHPD's avatar
May 5Edited

I stand corrected. From the Hind Rajab Foundation:

‘A Crime That the World Must Remember:

On 29 January 2024, Hind Rajab’s car was hit by Israeli tank fire. Six members of her family died instantly. Hind, wounded and terrified, remained alive for hours, whispering into a phone with PRCS dispatchers: “I’m so scared… please come.” ‘

Thank you.

The ambulance sent to save her never made it. It too was shelled and burned. The two medics inside were killed instantly. When rescue workers returned ten days later, they found Hind’s small body lying next to her cousin Layan. Their voices had gone quiet.’

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

Exactly. May Allah have mercy on her and her family and re-unite us all in the highest levels of Jannah.

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CHPD's avatar

Please try to send as much as you can to Mona Ramadan’s gofundme account. She has notified us that she has been targeted by the Israelis for elimination.

https://gofund.me/56b541d4

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

I don’t know you. I’ll confirm from Mona myself. Thanks.

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Awwal Tarh's avatar

That was all you could take from the post? There are differing reports about her age, depending on the sources you follow. The one I followed said she was 6. Yesterday she would have turned 7, so technically it’s true. She was about 5 years, 8 months and 26 days.

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CHPD's avatar

The post was awesome, thank you.

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