Amir Sulaiman:
“Houla massacre wouldnt let me sleep. How many more infamous and secret child massacres are there? I didn’t know what to do. I wept and wrote.”
To Damascus, years are only moments, decades are only flitting trifles of time. She measures time, not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise, and prosper and crumble to ruin. She is a type of immortality… Damascus has seen all that has ever occurred on earth, and still she lives. She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. Though another claims the name, old Damascus is by right the Eternal City.
Mark Twain
“To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return” — Qur’an, 2:156.
“O Mighty! O Invincible! Keep away from us the evil of the unjust.”
The victim must remember: there is a day when the divine redresser will right every wrong, heal every wound, fulfill every vow, and remove for all eternity the scars of this world that were unjustly inflicted by those who betrayed God’s protection.
Hamza Yusuf
Arabic calligraphy of the word “Freedom” shaped after the map of Syria.
Mishary Alafasy singing for Syria.
أيها المستطيل بالبغي أقصر طالما طأطأ الزمان الرؤوس
وتذكر قول الإله تعالى: إن قارون كان من قوم موسى
إذا ظلم المرء فاصبر له فبالقرب يقطع منه الوتين
فقد قال ربك وهو القوي وأملي لهم إن كيدي متين
مارماني رام وراح سليما من قديم عناية الله جندي
كم بغت دولة عليّ وجارت ثم زالت وتلك عقبى التحدي
“O You whose mighty kingdom never becomes less,
We hope to take asylum in divine largesse.”
5 minutes of Syria.
