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Each person brings with them a distinct flavour, or perhaps we say, their unique scent into conversations, group work, or anywhere they be. It spreads naturally, makes its mark and belongs uniquely to them. It is what makes them who they are. And when that scent is founded on iman and khair, it is beautiful.…
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Dear Light They Needed Dimmed, As you grow older, you see a lot. And you also see the brilliant ideas you had and did manage to let a sentence out of, only to be dashed out just as fast. In a grave need for security, to tuck it inside your heart, never to be spoken…
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I remember in my late teens, there was a message conveyed, in the most subtle yet sometimes very clear ways, that these are the years. All up to just early twenties. These are the years, and your worth is solely tied to a handful of specific things. And of course we believed this–I believed it.…
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Reaching freedom and a free heart and mind are not linear paths. They are more of navigation using your best judgement and knowledge rather than a simple, straight walking path. When we look at our colonial past and the hard reality of our present, one truth becomes clear: total dissociation is a fantasy. Instead, we…
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Targets and goals. But none her own. A stranger to her own labour. In a race that never seems to stop, because the finishing line keeps moving. Childhood and youth are times of skill-building, then identity building too. Where fitrah comes out to be refined, polished, and directed and when it begins to take various…
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The whys in your heart will be answered Just not in your time But in His.
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Twenty-three years. That is what it took for the Prophet ﷺ to accomplish his duty of messengership. Had it been more, he would have persevered further, for a life defined by a clear vision does not deem time an obstacle; it deems time a refiner. A life defined by a clear vision will also face…
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