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Want to study Persian? I tutor!
See below for more ⬇️
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Damn bro, you used to look like Cyrus the Great now you look like a twitch streamer
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The brother who donated his prison wages to Gaza, released in Ramadan. May Allah reward him endlessly.
Our brother Hamza is home after 38 years in prison. Alhamdullilah 🤲🏼
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Great, let's make every city in the world look exactly the same
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"Muslims have child marriages!"
I've never seen a pregnant Muslim child. I've lived in four Muslim countries.
I have seen several children pregnant in American schools, churches, etc, however.
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The Arabic 'mināra' means 'place of fire/light' while the Persian equivalent 'guldasta' means 'a handful of roses.'
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How media and culture shape our perception:
"Iran" in a Russian search engine vs. Google.
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A hamburger chain named after an Irish nationalist who died on a hunger strike? Iran has it
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When Persians turn their back to one another, they say, "I'm sorry my back is facing you" and the other person replies "A flower has neither front nor back."
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In English, we say we're 'broke,' indicating something is fundamentally wrong with us, but in Persian, we say, 'my wings are tied' (bāl o param basta ast).
The idea is that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with a poor person, they're just restricted by unfair circumstances.
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In a 99% Muslim country, the local mall has a Santa meet and greet for the kids.
Total American cultural victory. There is no escape from it.
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Age to consent to sex in France: 15
Age to consent to hijab: 18
Make it make sense.
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Lebanese Christians should return to this aesthetic, the wannabe French thing is not convincing.
Newly-weds. Bedouin Christians from Beirut, Lebanon. circa 1923.
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Imagine doing an incredibly invasive (if you don't believe me, google pics of rhinoplasty in progress, at your own peril of course), irreversible surgery just because you were fed Eurocentric beauty standards. Shame.
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If a Marine strangled a homeless man to death on the NY subway because he was afraid of him, what did the marines do to innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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The Persian word for 'intimate' or 'companion' is 'ham-dam' meaning 'one you share a breath with' or 'one you breathe with.'
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In an Istanbul mosque, this elder asked where I'm from.
I respond "Iran" and he began speaking to me in Persian.
Turns out he is from a micro-minority of Kazakh Iranians (he says they are just a few thousand).
He grew up in a village near Gorgan, then, his family went to
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In the Hagia Sophia, the calligraphy of Imam Ḥusayn’s blessed name includes a small teardrop, a reference to his tragic martyrdom.
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In the Hagia Sophia, the calligraphy of Imam Husayn’s blessed name includes a small teardrop, a reference to his tragic martyrdom.
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American liberals mostly understand freedom in terms of hedonism: freedom to drink and use drugs, strip naked, have casual sex, etc.
What about more meaningful freedoms, like the freedom for an average person to live a dignified, family-oriented life and raise their kids as they
1/ With Iran in the news, I'm going to do a brief educational thread on their history since the 1979 "Revolution" where they moved from a flawed monarchy with democratic principles to a theocracy under Ayatollah Khomeini.
Here's a picture of life in Iran before the revolution.
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All worship, whether the creator, or His creation.
Choose wisely.
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Persian, this is Persian architecture.
strange how none of the “retvrn to tradition” accounts ever talk about the stunning beauty of islamic architecture
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🧵Western Mosques that are both beautiful and vernacular:
Dar al-Islam in Abiquiú New Mexico
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Why is living at home as an adult considered a sign of failure in the West?
Sounds like a scheme made up by landlords...
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Arabic dialects would have broken into distinct languages à la Latin ages ago were it not for the Muslim emphasis on learning and preserving classical Arabic
Maltese is proof of this.
What language opinion gets you this reaction?
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The funniest part about this tired, stupid propaganda is that there was no Islamic revolution in Syria.
It's been ruled by a secular iron fist since the 1970s...
A group of women in Syria in 1970s before the lsIamic invasion.
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Can we please not do this
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This is absolutely true, though it will trigger many Arabs. Arabic is a struggling language, perhaps not as much as Urdu, but it is struggling.
Almost every intelligent Arab I know relies heavily on loanwords, or even entire English phrases, to convey any idea that exceeds
Arabic has a problem, it’s a dead language.
Ask an average Arabic speaker about words that are too specific like horse ‘reins’ or a tree ‘stump’ and they will struggle but a 4 year old English speaker will tell you.
This is why Arabic speakers are forced to mix in English.
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If your goal is to attract tourism, you should craft a city that is unique and representative of your region, why should I fly for hours to see ersatz Manhattan?
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"There is no illness like the illness of the heart."
-Mawlana Rumi, spotted in the Tehran metro.
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Many in the Iranian diaspora have no connection to Iran whatsoever.
They left decades ago, maintain no family ties, do not go back, etc, so they can advocate for reckless policies, such as sanctioning (or even bombing) Iran, at no personal cost.
Those of us such as myself, with
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Before your pagan ancestors even became Muslim, Iranians/Persians were standardizing Arabic grammar, compiling Hadith, founding the canonical Mazahib, and clarifying Sufism, sit down.
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🇺🇸: Hey, that pizza slice you ate at my house will be 80 cents, please Venmo it.
🇮🇷/🇮🇶/🇵🇰/🇦🇫/🇹🇷: I will tear my liver into pieces before I let you touch your wallet.
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This is beyond political disagreement, this is traitorous.
Our political disagreements are internal. We don't invite hostile outsiders to attack any inch of Iran.
This segment of the diaspora is mentally deranged and has nothing to do with us.
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Our cities are unbearably hot because we demolished shady alleyways made of natural materials, replaced them with heat-trapping streets, and filled those streets with heat producing automobiles.
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"Marrying children is legal in Muslim countries!"
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America is the only country where a random Muslim South Asian can so thoroughly join another subgroup (LA Chicano) that even the native members of that subgroup could not tell he is of another ethnicity.
Mr. Capone-E is of Hazara-Pakistani origin.
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Turks may be the only nationality I have encountered who make zero attempts to accommodate someone who doesn't speak their language.
No slower speaking, no motioning, no reliance on shared Perso-Arabic loanwords, nothing. Just rapid-fire Turkish, even after it's clear I don't
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English speakers unexpectedly 'fall' in love, but Persian love comes in stages: First the 'havā' (infatuation) of teens, then the 'dūstī' (affectionate love) of a couple, then the 'eshq' (passionate love) of newlyweds, and finally the 'mohabbat,' (caring love) of an old couple.
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We need to end eurocentric beauty standards now, I'm beyond tired of seeing people torture their natural hair, bleach their skin, mutilate their noses, inject their faces with God knows what, just to look like their colonizer. Every ethnicity is beautiful!!!
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Why was the Sufi disciple's work not accepted?
It wasn't pīr reviewed.
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Many Western-raised Muslims tell themselves this, but the reality is that aside from highly westernized places like Dubai or Istanbul, living in the Muslim world is culturally impossible for someone born and raised in the West.
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The worst Islamophobes are not Whites, they're the Iranian Diaspora.
They will have a tantrum if they see an Iranian woman choosing to cover her hair outside of Iran, and instead of defending the lady they posted (the page stole her video), they pin the comment attacking her.
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Nothing happened. Syria is a secular country. You can still find women dressed like this.
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Saying "White people have no culture" is an expression of internalized white supremacy.
They do have a culture, but you are conditioned to see it as the default/normal, so it's not "culture."
It's the same reason our food is "ethnic." Why isn't theirs ethnic too?
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Islam knows no boundaries, I love how Chinese Muslims have rendered Islamic terms in a way that is compatible with their native religious lexicon. I recall a term for Muhammad that translates to "The Greatest Sage."
In Chinese, Allah is rendered as 真主, literally "the True Master".
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This is just pure coping emerging from a defeated people.
We are in no position to defeat anyone. Right now we are praying that America can rein them in, and that's all we can do, appeal to the morality of our conqueror[s].
350 million Arab Muslims and 80 million Turks
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I was an instantly addicted when I found Adeni tea in Jordan.
When I returned to America I learned how to make the drink via trial and error.
Instead of paying ~15$ for a pot at your local hipster Yemeni Cafe, try my recipe.
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Regarding an Egyptian tourist's video of Iranians eating during Ramadan:
The following is true:
1) Religiosity is down in Iran. The decline was already underway during the Shah's time, but the current government has sped it up. This is also in line with global trends toward
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Ottoman mosques are jalālī, they remind you of God's might.
Persian mosques are jamālī, they remind you of God's beauty.
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How do I explain to Americans that my dad calls me dad
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Persians call the robe many Muslim cultures wear an 'aba (عباء), which is an Arabic word, and Arabs call it a bisht (بشت) which is an Arabization of the Persian word 'back' (پشت).
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Meeting a 22 year old 'consultant' was my first hint that the entire big-city professional class was a scam.
What do you know at 22 for you to consult anyone on anything?
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Gad Saad on Twitter: I'm fluent in Arabic!
Gaad Saad in Arabic interview: Sorry I'm struggling to speak, my Arabic is quite broken, I left Lebanon at a young age...
Even Arabs who are fluent in colloquial Arabic but never studied MSA can struggle to understand the basic sense
Noble Person: Hey Jew, you know nothing about our faith!
Me: Well, I do know a lot about it. I was born in the Middle East.
Noble Person: Hey Jew, but you don't speak Arabic so shut your Jewey mouth.
Me: Well, you are from Pakistan so you don't speak Arabic. I on the
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One of the most interesting things about diasporas is how they are frozen in time.
You find Amish and Italian-Americans speaking dialects dead/dying in Europe, Chinese-Americans cooking 19th century peasant food long gone in China, Iranian-American using 70s slang (Irooni, etc).
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"Minors accompanied by adult spouse" I'm sure the evil Muslims are the ones taking their child brides to Applebee's in the middle of nowhere America.
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Muslims are obsessed with conquering the world but they can't even pave their streets.
In our countries, the sidewalk is sand, the garbage piles up, and stagnant water sits on the streets for weeks.
How about we clean up our own act before worrying about which European
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The tomb of Cyrus the Great was a grazing ground before Europeans told us it was important.
They could have dismantled it and taken it away brick by brick without much pushback, too.
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So you can crowdfund weapons for Europeans but if my Arab student sends me a venmo titled "Persian class" his account gets locked?
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To give you a sense of the trauma and brain rot prevalent in Iran; just look at our social media.
A mosque Imam is killed in Newark and the top comments are all celebratory.
Iranian society is deeply sick.
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If we want Islam to spread in the Americas, it's going to look like this, not our niche immigrant "let's pretend like we're still in our home countries" anxiety Islam.
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I long for our comfortable and welcoming traditional homes.
Modern furniture kills all the surrounding spaces, but in a small place like this there's room for so much: you can pray, sleep, eat. kids can play. This is what a home is.
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🇺🇸/🇨🇦/🇬🇧: Your change is 12 cents, sir.
🇮🇷/🇮🇶/🇵🇰: 🍬
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I love living in Istanbul's old Jewish/Christian quarter. The streets are medieval, dotted with Greek/Armenian churches, synagogues, and mosques from centuries ago.
Sounds of life, like the cries of babies or children playing, waft into your house with the morning breeze.
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You're mad that other Muslims like your culture?
Would you prefer we remain in our post colonial states instead of being an ummah?
"Cultural appropriation" is a Western problem.
Stop importing whatever idea or culture war the West has at the moment.
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The biggest issue we as Muslims have is that with live with fantasies and delusions. We need reality checks.
We imagine that Islam is the "fastest growing religion!" because of dawa and conversion, when really it is our birth rates.
We imagine that a Muslim takeover of Europe
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I don't understand where this faux nostalgia comes from, when exactly was Europe paradise?
During communism?
During the world wars?
During the insane poverty and squalor of the 19th century and before?
You're a commoner Tristan, in that glorious past, you'd be scooping the
Europe was paradise on earth.
What the hell happened?
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Elite culture is a cringe copy of French culture, anything traditional is associated with poverty and backwardness, it's so over, we're cooked
Have you ever seen anything more Persian than this?
The gold furniture, the Persian rug, the music, the large bowl of fruit, and the small dog….
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Losers with no rebuttal resort to racism. There is nothing wrong with being Pakistani.
Any Pakistani with a pure heart is my brother and any racist Iranian is a stranger to me.
You are a paki and your opinion is irrelevant.
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We're generally failing to produce young men.
Our girls are learning foreign languages, getting degrees, excelling at work, while our boys are playing FIFA, smoking shisha, and not showing any initiative in life.
This seems to be the case in every Muslim country I'm aware of.
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Hijrah is not our solution.
Leaving 'kafir' America for lands of 'Islam' where you're excluded from public life for basic religiosity, or even persecuted by the state.
A cafe in Amman didn't let me in because I wore a thawb. Once they heard me speak English, they let me in.
“The problem is they literally kicked us out. Neither indoors, nor outdoors… get out.”
An Egyptian restaurant in Cairo is facing a backlash after an angry guest complained on TikTok about her group being kicked out for having women with hijab
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Persians today: We hate ‘Umar because he conquered Iran!
Persians then:
Sa'di: "‘Umar would be worthy of prophethood after Muhammad."
Rumi: "‘Umar, the conqueror of the devil arrived."
Nizami: "I’m not empty of love for ‘Umar."
Firdawsi: "Islam was made manifest by ‘Umar."
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POV: you live in a dying society
Tools and public contaptions you can find in Korean cities
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In Iran, even the thugs love Persian poetry.
His back tattoo reads:
"I am the taloned eagle of the skies, O heaven,
how can you make me fly with parrots?"
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In traditional societies people have fun in public with others. There's a local café/pub, bathhouse, gym, theater, pool/rec center, etc.
In suburbia, you create these spaces at home. People buy a coffee maker, a home bar, a sauna, a home gym, home theater, pool, man cave, etc.
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has a new map reminding us that Persian poetry is much bigger than the modern borders of Iran.
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Fearing a foreign language is a tell-tale sign of an insecure society/person.
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Much of what has made Islam great comes from Persians:
—Major hadith collections
—Arabic grammar books
—Islamic mysticism
—Poetry
—Architecture
—The expansion of Islam (Seljuks, Ottomans, etc were Persianate Turkic people)
This burns the eyes of those that hate Persian people.
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"Islam is not native to anybody considered white"
Bosnians would like a word with Ms. "Le Bon"
Let’s break down the photo of the white women praying at University of Texas.
Some say, “what’s the problem with public prayer?” This isn’t about a problem with public prayer, or a problem with prayer at all. Prayer is a beautiful spiritual practice.
What we’re witnessing,
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One of the few remaining traditional tailors in Tehran, Darwish Muhammad.
Few people know that a dying art is being kept alive inside Muhammad's small, unassuming shop.
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AVOID THESE THAWB MISTAKES 🧵
For various reasons, thawbs have become a uniform for Muslim men in the diaspora, and you see many non-Arabs making elementary thawb mistakes.
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Imagine having a society so fragile that a foreign script threatens you.
I can't even call Arabic foreign to Turkey. It was the script of Ottoman Turkish, and millions of Turks the world over still write Turkish that way.
They might as well tear down all of the Ottoman placards
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Iqbal-e Lahori street (as he's known in Iran) in Tehran and Mashhad.
Iranians often call Allama Iqbal the 'most Iranian foreigner' because of their love for his poetry.
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Whoever started the humming in Islamic videos has to be held accountable
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After the revolution, Iran re-named the British Embassy street from 'Winston Churchill' to 'Bobby Sands' to troll the British.
The restaurant opened on that street and bears this name for that reason.
The original location has closed, their new location is in northern Tehran.
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American Muslims will spend 15 million dollars building this out-of-place aesthetic nightmare.
Meanwhile, a beautiful Gothic church has sat abandoned nearby for years.
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Muslim twitter exposing lay Muslims to medieval theology debates has been very damaging.
In Muslim countries, you find pious people who don't know if they're asha'ri or maturidi, hanafi or shafi'i, and on here you see people takfiring each other over 1000-year old issues.
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My brother in Islam, I already said, "türkçe bilmiyorum," why are you saying the same thing to me louder.
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I love Tehran because it's a city where people install Rumi on their home facade.
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