Maryam Amir – Intellectual catastrophe

Started working on designs from a new secret

project. I then got the phone and went

to get a haircut. My dear brother was

just murdered. He was murdered by Israel. And

I keep thinking about the fact that he

covered up his project because it's a secret,

and he wasn't ready to share it. And

I keep reflecting on the intellectual catastrophe,

the catastrophe of this genocide intellectually.

How many people have secret projects that they've

been working on that they wanted to produce,

and what a loss it is not on

a just a personal level, but, like, all

of us have lost opportunity

to ever know what his secret project was.

And the

180,000

plus others like him. May Allah enter them

into the highest paradise. I constantly think about

people having secrets with Allah. And something like

this. I think about the secrets that someone

like this has with Allah that nothing is

ever lost. That if he made the intention

and he wanted to seek this, that maybe

Allah will bless someone with knowing his idea

and being able to bring it into the

world insha'Allah. And insha'Allah it'll be a salal

kajari for him that even if he wasn't

able to do it, that he made the

intention that he wanted to, that Allah will

write it as if he did and insha'Allah

he'll get the reward of that. But I

say those things just to make myself feel

better because, of course, I believe them and

I know that they're true and there's a

hereafter for a reason. How do you process

genocide? This young brother was murdered. He had

an entire life and secrets that he wanted

to share with the world, but he wasn't

ready yet. How do you justify

the cultural devastation,

the intellectual devastation?

And yet, Al Azza teaches us life.