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How Are You Doing? Busy! How’s Life? Busy! What Did You Do This Week? Busy! Did You Eat Today? Busy!
﷽ ☺︎ Let me be absolutely honest: I’m the type to leave things where they are then frantically try to get them done at the very last minute. I like the feeling of adrenaline rushing through my body from doing that. But that’s not how life has been for the past few months. I didn’t…
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My Appetite for This World? GONE!
﷽ ☺︎ Life could be going well for me, when all of a sudden… BAM! Something unsavoury happens that reminds me to never get too comfortable in this world. The Prophet S.A.W was onto something when he advised us to be in this world as wayfarers. The closest thing that reminds me of wayfarers are…
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I’ve Been Focusing My Energy on Myself, Not on K-Dramas
﷽ ☺︎ Deep down, I always knew I had an unhealthy, over-excessive, and obsessive attachment to my laptop and watching movies, tv shows, and Korean dramas. Over the years, it switched from being a deep attachment to an addiction. I’d spend days on bed, just binge-watching and rewatching one k-drama/movie/tv-show after another. It was a…
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I Love My Current Timeline the Most, but Something’s Telling Me That I Should Reach for More
﷽ ☺︎ I have never felt more aligned with who I am than I currently do. Up until now, I have always felt that there has been a mismatch; who I was externally did not always match up to who I was internally. But now, I’m doing things I genuinely enjoy doing. No one is…
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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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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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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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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…