Intentional Living
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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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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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Being involved in a legal case as a Muslim woman in a country where Muslims are a minority can be an extremely isolating experience. Whether the case involves marital law or children’s rights, it can pull you into a dark place if you do not approach it with the right mindset. However, I want to…
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There are various criteria, most of them subconscious, that people use to evaluate your worth. They gather different aspects of your life, add them together in their minds, and arrive at a conclusion about your value. But this standard of evaluation may not be the standard of worthiness according to Ar Rahman, Allah Most High.…
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Somewhere early on, this idea was instilled in us through what we saw, heard, and read: that there is a premade mould, and we need to fit into it. This mould was mostly good. Usually, it was built around tried and tested methods for living. Perhaps we can call it a societal “norm.” It provided…