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Dec 2023 · 45
Explain
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2023
We greet each other with assalamou 'alaykoum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuh
and we start with bismillah

Now, please explain how your tongue still finds the energy to utter every negative over every positive

Please explain how your tongue is spitting sin after sin, causing it to lose respect for whom is supposed to be its master

Explain
Sep 2023 · 237
Courageous she is
Yousra Amatullah Sep 2023
Courage is
acting upon his name

While beauty is
guarded with the veil of her Lord
Dec 2022 · 176
Hijaab
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2022
He swt declared our right 'to be covered' fard, SoubhanAllah. He declared our hijaab fard as a sign of His Mercy. Yet we fail to remember our names. We fail to remember what our beloved prophet Muhammad saws went through, and those who came before him. We forget about those who suffered and died for the sake of Allah swt. They went through so much pain, spreading and defending women's rights. Telling her that she is utmost valuable and that she should be cherished, protected, covered.

We fail to remember the blood that has been shed. We do so when we perfume our hijaab, and when we show off that little bit of hair. We do so when our headscarves don't match our skinny jeans and when our freshly painted faces don't add up to the beauty of haya. We do so when our hijaab is see-through, showing our beautiful curved bodies to a world that in the end will testify against us.

My dear sisters, you are so beautiful wearing His shield instead of the world's corruption.

Please, for the sake of Allah swt, protect yourselves.
Dec 2022 · 322
Veiled
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2022
There's nothing more courageous than a man, acting upon his name. And there's nothing more beautiful than a woman guarded with the veil of her Lord.
Dec 2022 · 184
Him, I told everything
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2022
Him, I told everything
I told Him about the sleeplessness of dunya
And about the dreams of akhirah

I told Him in poems,
As eyes started to speak
And tears started to colour the prayer mat

Every tear, on their knees
Every met grain of sand, sees
Overflowing pages, and their never ending stories
Dunya = world
Akhirah = hereafter
Dec 2022 · 138
Perhaps
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2022
Senselessly, I wanted
No tongue, to prevent me from speaking ill
No eyes, assuming I wouldn't have to see the horrors of this dunya
No ears, to prevent me from hearing anything ill
A numb body, assuming I wouldn't be able to walk astray
Sickness, to gain patience and to get closer to You, Allah

Instead, You gave me
A voice, perhaps to gain patience and to get closer to You, Allah
Sight, perhaps to see and follow the right path
Hearing, perhaps to remind me of Your mercy
A strong body, perhaps to take a stand against all evil
Health, perhaps to avoid me from speaking ill
Yousra Amatullah Oct 2022
Achteloos proberen zij aan het licht te sleutelen
Terwijl de hitte van de zon hen inhaalt
Oct 2022 · 591
Soil
Yousra Amatullah Oct 2022
If her death is like that of a rose
Turning into soil

Then how is death not the beginning of life?
Aug 2022 · 292
Hart
Yousra Amatullah Aug 2022
Hetgeen van de tong druipt
stroomt door het hart
Aug 2022 · 619
Death
Yousra Amatullah Aug 2022
We're still fighting life
as if we stand a chance against Death.
Jul 2022 · 251
Vergeten
Yousra Amatullah Jul 2022
Hij die een vrouw naar beneden haalt, op welke manier dan ook, is de positie van zijn moeder vergeten.
Jul 2022 · 295
Non-refoulement
Yousra Amatullah Jul 2022
"We don't want you inside our borders but we will try to get inside yours"
Jul 2022 · 2.5k
Lullaby
Yousra Amatullah Jul 2022
They fell asleep to the sound of rattling chains
And dream to sell its lullaby
I think it's time to wake up..
Jun 2022 · 155
Accordingly
Yousra Amatullah Jun 2022
We live in a world where people introduce themselves with names of honor, but refuse to act accordingly.
Jun 2022 · 592
Morals
Yousra Amatullah Jun 2022
Morals never change,
They fade away.
May 2022 · 1.3k
Rose
Yousra Amatullah May 2022
Openness is vulnerability and vulnerability is beautiful. That's why we love roses.

Though. Many of us are afraid of getting pricked by thorns in places that already hurt. So instead of simply trying to hold on to the rose, many admire it from a distance.
Until the chance of actually holding & keeping it dies.

Did they forget that rose petals have healing properties too?
May 2022 · 2.0k
Light
Yousra Amatullah May 2022
Light is the tongue that speaks his heart, using 'aql
May 2022 · 1.9k
Fall
Yousra Amatullah May 2022
I don't want to fall in love at the end of downfall


I want to fall in love when the world starts to come to an end
Only to witness true strength, true principles, true colour


I want to fall in love with one who already has fallen dead in love with his Lord


And when I do,
It's because he asked Allah swt to whiten his sight, and to increase the glowing of his chest

And when I do,
It's because He placed love in me too

๐Ÿค
May 2022 · 1.8k
Green leaves
Yousra Amatullah May 2022
The wind is chasing trees,
I hear the green leaves
And I hear the green leave,
Unfortunately
I see a desert giving birth
To another sea
May 2022 · 1.1k
Exhaling
Yousra Amatullah May 2022
You can keep inhaling the ashes of my people

But i assure you
We will keep exhaling poetry,
For our breath is burning hot

Surely, one day
It will reach you
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
People never really leave
You either meet them again in personย 
Or you'll find their flowers blooming, contemplating that image in the mirror
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Apr 2022 · 159
๐Ÿ’™
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
Wat is een kind zonder huis
Anders dan een staat zonder volk
Apr 2022 · 973
Some of us
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
Some sleep after birth only to wake up dead
Apr 2022 · 516
Wearing red
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
You're crowned with the beauty of His wisdom
Wearing red, within your chest
Apr 2022 · 1.7k
โค๏ธ
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
She is beautiful,
Wearing red

Within her chest
Apr 2022 · 1.1k
Beautiful
Yousra Amatullah Apr 2022
You are so beautiful Ma Sha Allah Allahouma Barik.
Yes! I'm talking about you!

Imagine someone putting you together, piece by piece.
Every detail, every inch, every atom that makes you YOU was put together with utmost wisdom. His wisdom.
He swt wants you to look the way you actually look; amazing.

He wants you to have that skin color and texture. He wants you to have those beautiful eyes, even if you can't see through them. He wants you to have that beautiful nose, lashes, eyebrows, arms, legs, hands, feet and so on. Even if certain parts do not work properly, even if you do not fit into the beauty standards of today's world. And even if people start calling you names.

Remember, He named you first.
He swt named you with utmost wisdom, care and love.
Don't lose that name. Please, don't lose the way He created you just to fit into a beautified lie..

Love, I want you to understand that there is wisdom in every inch of your body; His wisdom. Meaning you're constantly carrying His wisdom around. That way you're constantly reminded of your name, of who you truly are;
A servant of Allah swt, crowned with the beauty of His wisdom

๐Ÿค
Apr 2022 · 1.7k
I am
Mar 2022 · 2.4k
Circling
Mar 2022 · 118
Start
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
If we started, using
๏ทฝ
How different would the taste of tongues be
Mar 2022 · 1.3k
Read red to us
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
When thunder is replaced with the screaming of an unborn child
And clouds choose to rain tears instead

When this dunya becomes a graveyard
And the seven seas give birth to one ocean of death

When the empty stomach of a black coloured men makes for a white supremacist's money bag

And when your lungs are used to carry the ashes of my faithful men

Then don't read to us from tales that greyed out your chest
Read of the walls that collected broken limbs
Read, from heart to chest
Read red to us
Mar 2022 · 1.6k
Death
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
I fell in love
With His words, His promises, His ways

And I fell, hard
Into sujood

The day I had fallen in love
With Death
Mar 2022 · 146
Patience
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
He's there having patience with you
Maybe you should have patience with others too
Mar 2022 · 899
Differently, we are
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
A lot of men are quick to think that they're loved by everyone just because of one kind soul.

A lot of women are quick to think that they're hated by everyone just because of one sick heart.
Mar 2022 · 837
Overflowing pages
Yousra Amatullah Mar 2022
He finds his soul
In books, overflowing pages
He = Everyone.
Feb 2022 · 113
Beauty
Yousra Amatullah Feb 2022
A believer's beauty is found in his sight,
Rather than his eyes.
Feb 2022 · 153
Focus
Yousra Amatullah Feb 2022
Focus,
Jannah is just around the corner

-
If it is true love what makes your beating heart,
Remind me of death
Jannah is the Arabic word for Heaven/Paradise
Feb 2022 · 112
Correct me
Yousra Amatullah Feb 2022
If I do something wrong, correct me.
Correct me (directly) by reminding me of Him in the most beautiful of ways.

Please do not mock me for not walking properly,
For our enemies carry the same name.
Jan 2022 · 119
Bezonken
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
Het is haar natuur
Wisten zij van hetgeen haar takken droegen,
En *** het water haar met de grond deed verenigen

Dan reikten zij de wolken,
En waren zij, eveneens
In regen bezonken
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
To tell her she is oppressed,
They try assaulting her for the way she is dressed

To command being served,
They try ****** her for the way she was curved

They're the classless that spit upon her key, her name,
For not inviting them freely into her house. What a shame.

Their violation forced humanity to live early life in a tomb,
Unaffected, she carries on, as she carries the world in her womb
Jan 2022 · 694
Solitude
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
When you see me,
Alone
Don't fool yourself by thinking I've lost everything I've ever had, and lost everyone I've ever met
For I am facing the qibla
Alone, with everything I am,
And everyone I ever was

It is you, who wouldn't care enough to see
I am gathered, by The Greatest of company
Love my solitude
Jan 2022 · 1.4k
Reason
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
And value was the ink with which their names were written
Jan 2022 · 154
๐ŸŒฑ
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
They have occupied the blue
Thinking the green will follow,
Naturally
Jan 2022 · 5.9k
Sujood
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
She's in a constant state of comfort, pure bliss
Knowing she wouldn't be pricked by a thorn,
If it wasn't for the smell of rizq colouring His roses

She's in a constant state of purity
As His clouds turn into heavy storms above her head
Gently rinsing away the bad, returning her only for the good

She's in a constant state of obedience,
As gratefully awake she is
Her eyes let go of tears with utmost ease
Honoured, they fall and sink into the lowest of grounds
Only to join His droplets of rain, humble, in their firmest sujood
๐Ÿค
Jan 2022 · 227
Why?
Yousra Amatullah Jan 2022
They are waiting for others to love them
While having hearts of their own
Dec 2021 · 235
Fruitlessly
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2021
He got distracted by the shimmering of a fruitless mirage

He drank until drunk

Dust covered up his tongue, forcing his heart to swallow stone

He drank until dust

He drank until mirroring
The very same mirage

He drank,
Fruitlessly
Dec 2021 · 119
Pride?
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2021
๐“จ๐“ธ๐“พ ๐“ฝ๐“ฒ๐“ฎ๐“ญ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ป ๐“ฌ๐“ช๐“ถ๐“ฎ๐“ต, ๐”€๐“ฎ๐“ต๐“ต ๐“ญ๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ฎ.
๐“๐“ธ๐”€, ๐“ณ๐“พ๐“ผ๐“ฝ ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ฝ ๐“ธ๐“ฏ ๐“ฌ๐“พ๐“ป๐“ฒ๐“ธ๐“ผ๐“ฒ๐“ฝ๐”‚:
๐“ฆ๐“ฑ๐“ธ ๐“ฐ๐“ฒ๐“ฏ๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ญ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ฝ ๐“ฌ๐“ช๐“ถ๐“ฎ๐“ต?
๐““๐“ฒ๐“ญ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ ๐“ซ๐“พ๐”‚ ๐“ฒ๐“ฝ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ป๐“ผ๐“ฎ๐“ต๐“ฏ?
๐“ฆ๐“ฒ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ ๐”€๐“ฑ๐“ช๐“ฝ ๐“ถ๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ฎ๐”‚?
๐“จ๐“ธ๐“พ๐“ป ๐“ธ๐”€๐“ท ๐“ถ๐“ธ๐“ท๐“ฎ๐”‚?
...
๐“ฆ๐“ฎ๐“ป๐“ฎ๐“ท'๐“ฝ ๐”‚๐“ธ๐“พ ๐“ซ๐“ธ๐“ป๐“ท ๐“ท๐“ช๐“ด๐“ฎ๐“ญ?
You tied you camel. Well done.
Now, just out of curiosity:
Who gifted you that camel?
Did you buy it yourself?
With what money?
Your own money?
...
Weren't you born naked?
Dec 2021 · 186
Soul
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2021
The heart becomes mesmerizing
When overpowered by the scent of one's soul
Dec 2021 · 192
Blind
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2021
Verdronken in geest
Tongen blind gemaakt
Harten, met lood ingegoten
Doof voor eigen naam

Als waterdruppels hebben zij zich laten absorberen door het stof van deze dunya
Zij verkeren in droogte, enkel en alleen om mee te kunnen praten over de hardheid waarmee zij de ziel wensen te verpletteren

Zij hebben *** huizen kostenloos weggegeven
En zijn gaan leven in de bek van een slang
Achteloos wachten zij op de sleutel der goedkeuring
Vol wetenschap van *** mogelijke ondergang
Dec 2021 · 205
Mรจre
Yousra Amatullah Dec 2021
Als een Juliet-roos
Uiterst kostbaar om te oogsten
Een hart als fluweel, als een boeket aan rozen
Geeft hoge noten af, diepe, eindeloze kleuren

Zij die oogsten, zijn bedachtzaam
Geschikt, zoals ik uit jou ben voortgekomen
En voor wie onzorgvuldig is
Ben ik, zorgvuldig, als een doorn in het oog
Nov 2021 · 2.0k
Beautiful darknesses
Yousra Amatullah Nov 2021
We don't like keeping in the dark
Thus, we sleep at nighttime
Only when the brightness of the sun kisses our lands, we wake up

Like flowers, turning towards the sun
In order to grow

It's almost as if we're eager to forget that seeds grow healthy long before they're greeted by the sun
It's almost as if we're eager to forget that we're always in need of darkness in each of our lives

Flowers absorb their nutrition out of the dark, like humans, only to grow stronger

Thus, we sleep at nighttime
Only to run towards His light as soon as possible
'With hardship, there is ease'
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