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What Islam Teaches Us about Delayed Gratification
﷽ ☺︎ Change is never an easy process. The islamic way of bringing about the change of some one or some thing emphasizes slow, yet constant reform. I was reading surah Al-Isra this morning, and I came across the ayah that reads: مَّن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ عَجَّلْنَا لَهُۥ فِيهَا مَا نَشَآءُ لِمَن نُّرِيدُ ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا…
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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 your pursuits. In fact, if you anticipate that they will hold you back from doing what’s best for your growth, then…
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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 me and upon His believers. I thank Him for the blessings that I know of, and also for the ones I…
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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 taking the wifi out every time I disagreed with him or didn’t do what he wanted me to do. I can’t…
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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 that phone made this morning made me so angry. But I didn’t take it out on her. Her phone went off…
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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 something to do with a madman threatening to end an entire civilization. May Allah swt protect the ummah from the disbelievers.…
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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 of myself had so many expectations for how my life was supposed to be. Alhamdulilah, I’m not the same the person…
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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 how we women have trapped ourselves in little boxes, thinking that we’re actually doing it for our benefit. I’m sick and…
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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 life I charted out for myself. I started university when I made a plan detailing how my life should’ve went, and…
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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 them when it comes to how I choose to run my life. My strategy for living my life is up to…