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Yahia Lababidi
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Author of On the Contrary (2025), 🇵🇸 Palestine Wail (2024) & 12 other books : aphorisms, poetry, essays, and conversations. Exploring art, spirit, and conscience. #WritingCommunity #BookSky https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0042SRQWG
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 9d
#art by Sliman Mansour

Temporary escape, oil on canvas, 2018

#Palestine
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 8h
What Do Animals Dream?

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WHAT DO ANIMALS DREAM by Yahia Lababidi
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 8h
#photography by Chinouia Mina @Chinouia
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 8h
We live, love and create
as best as we can
but, sometimes, in haste
— lest we succumb
to the siren call
of self-destruction.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 9h
#Art by Agostino Arrivabene
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 11h
Indeed, the promise of Allah is truth, so let not the worldly life delude you and be not deceived about Allah by the Deceiver.

— Luqman 31:33 #Quran
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 11h
If you disbelieve, Allah is Independent of you, yet He does not approve ingratitude on the part of His servants. And if you are thankful, He will approve that in you. No bearer of burden can bear the burden of another.

[ #Quran 39:7]
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 11h
If they argue with you, say, “I have surrendered myself to Allah, and those who follow me.” And say to those who were given the Scripture, and to the unlearned, “Have you surrendered?” If they have surrendered, then they are guided

[ #Quran 3:20]
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 11h
“Those who spend (freely), whether in prosperity, or in adversity; who restrain anger, and pardon (all) men; for Allah loves those who do good"

#Quran 3:134
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 22h
“Be steadfast, enjoin kindness, avoid ignorance, and bear with patience whatever befalls you.”

#Quran 31:17
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 22h
Soon will We show them our Signs in the (furthest) regions (of the earth), and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the Truth.

Is it not enough that thy Lord doth witness all things?

#Quran 41: 53
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
“The tongue of the [spiritual] state is more eloquent than my tongue,
And my silence is the interpreter of my question."

— Al-Hujwiri
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
‘When the fishhook of Love catches your mouth, He will begin to pull you in, slowly.’

— Rumi, Fihe ma Fih
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
If ten lamps are in one place, each differs in form from another; yet you can't distinguish whose radiance is whose when you focus on the light.

In the field of spirit there is no division; no individuals exist.

#Rumi
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
There is in every age, a group of godly persons of whom God Most High never leaves the world destitute.

For they are the pillars of the earth, and by their blessings the divine mercy descends upon earthdwellers…

— Al-Ghazali
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 1d
🖋️ New on The Culturium
Wilde, Nietzsche & the Art of Living :

In this essay I trace the surprising affinities between two revolutionary 19th-century minds.

🖋️ Read the full essay here:
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Yahia Lababidi: Wilde, Nietzsche & the Art of Living | The Culturium
Yahia Lababidi's spellbinding exploration of the lives, philosophies & literary styles of Oscar Wilde & Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
A personal essay, on some the books that have shaped me earlier:

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The Books We Were
Certain cherished books are like old loves. We didn’t part on bad terms; but it’s complicated, and would require too much effort to resume relations.If one’s first love is for Letters, people tend to ...
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
Here's a handful of books on my shelf that have quietly been altering my inner landscape...

#shelfie #booksky #Islam
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
'There must be something strangely sacred in salt.
It is in our tears and in the sea.'

— Gibran
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
#Nature #photography by Kent Burgess
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
'Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.'
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
"...for here there is no place/ that does not see you. You must change your life."

— Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo
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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 2d
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us"

—Franz Kafka
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