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Stop Hating Your Body, It Isn’t Yours; You Are More Than How You Look
﷽ ☺︎ What do I have to offer other than my beauty? Why am I so obsessed with looking like the most beautiful woman in the room? I think the answers to these questions…
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Why Have I Never Been a Good Enough Reason for Myself?
﷽ ☺︎ One thing I learned early on about spawning in an East African Muslim household as a girl is that you are raised alongside the concept of shame from the moment you start…
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I Know How to Tie My Camel, I Just Need to Relearn How to Put Tawakkul in Allah
﷽ ☺︎ Hello, dear reader. I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been trying to put all my focus on the process, and I learned that it is a painful thing to do. I’m the…
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New Era Incoming! I Give the Last Version of Umulkhair a Big Hug & Say Goodbye
﷽ ☺︎ I’m getting older. I don’t care about the unnecessary things I used to care about. It feels as though an unseen boulder has been lifted off my back; that’s the best way…
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Should I Live in the Moment, or Should I Make Older Me Proud? Can’t I Do Both at the Same Time?
﷽ ☺︎ A crushing fact I learned about life is that it goes on. No matter what happens, whether it be good, neutral, or bad, life continues to happen. Alhamdulilah for that. A while…
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I Got Rid of Most of My Clothes, and I Feel Free! *Cackles in Sméagol*
﷽ ☺︎ For a while now, my life has been feeling like utter chaos. Not the kind of chaos where I have so many things happening all at once that I feel overwhelmed. Rather,…
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What Is Love?
﷽ ☺︎ I’m very much not a nostalgic person, though I’ve lately been thinking about how love has presented itself to me in every relationship I’ve ever had. I don’t know… maybe it’s because…
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Hi I’d Like to Order Some Thoughts with a Side of Self-Loathing
﷽ ☺︎ Hello, dear reader. I didn’t feel like writing today, but I still have to stick to the schedule I created for this blog. I’ve been using my Notes app these days to…
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Eid Mubarak! I Prayed Next to an Auntie I Blocked Last Year & It Was Awkward
﷽ ☺︎ Hey guys! Happy Eid ul-Adha. This year, I walked to the place I pray Eid prayer every year. I made it on time, alhamdulilah. A few minutes after I got there, everyone…
