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Your Parents Can Only Hold You Back if You Allow Them to Do So
﷽ ☺︎ Your immigrant ethnic mother and father can hold you back only if you allow them to hold you back. You need to draw a line in the sand when it comes to…
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Fridays Are Great for the Grateful Type
﷽ ☺︎ Allah swt blessed me. The stores of His unbounded rizq affects my life in many ways more than I could ever could imagine. I thank Him for all that He bestowed upon…
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Harsh Reality Strikes Again on a Cool April Night
﷽ ☺︎ One day, I’ll leave this house. I want that day to be peaceful. I want to leave this place in peace. I don’t want to hold a grudge against my father for…
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Ads and Alarms Are a Deliberate Attack on the Minds of the Masses
﷽ ☺︎ My sleep was disrupted this morning by this annoying sound coming from the phone of my sister who decided to sleep in my room last night. Alarms are aggravating. The unnerving sounds…
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A Muslim Woman Expresses Her Pernicious Feelings of Lassitude
﷽ ☺︎ The exhaustion finally caught up to me, alhamdulilah. These days, I have this nasty habit of checking my phone as soon as I open my eyes. I think this newfound habit has…
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On Progress, My Paid Newsletter, and People Who Are Always Negative & Embroiled in Drama
﷽ ☺︎ Progress is slow, but it is inevitable. Today, I feel very behind in life. I’m not where I want to be. I’m not comparing myself to anyone, alhamdulilah, but the younger version…
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What if Every Single Girl Reading This Just Took a Deep Breath and Remembered That None of This Matters in the End?
﷽ ☺︎ I’m prepared to be perceived as a hater today, because my God, this is exhausting. Why do we have to do this all the time? When I say “this,” I’m talking about…
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On Third-Culture Kids & the Shame of Growing up Poor in North America
﷽ I apologize for the abrupt frankness, but, tears are falling down my face as I write this. Today, my body has decided that it’s time I properly grieved the pain of losing the…
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I Love Being a Stay-At-Home Daughter
﷽ ☺︎ It’s hard to enjoy the life Allah swt blessed you with if you constantly have your family breathing down your neck over you being unemployed. That is why I turned away from…
