Navigating Emotional Abuse
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This article is about the purposeful misdiagnosis and unnecessary medication of healthy members in a family institution by its head figures for various motives like for control, convenience, or personal gain. This sinister move is often carried out strategically over a long period of time. What makes it extremely difficult for the victim to snap…
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And they sold him for a low price, – for a few Dirhams (i.e. for a few silver coins). And they were of those who regarded him insignificant. (Yusuf:20) Yusuf was sold for a few meagre dirhams in the market. Did that price define what he was worth? So they raced with one another to…
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فَبَدَأَ بِأَوْعِيَتِهِمْ قَبْلَ وِعَاءِ أَخِيهِ ثُمَّ اسْتَخْرَجَهَا مِن وِعَاءِ أَخِيهِ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ كِدْنَا لِيُوسُفَ ۖ مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِي دِينِ الْمَلِكِ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ ۚ نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مَّن نَّشَاءُ ۗ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ قَالُوا إِن يَسْرِقْ فَقَدْ سَرَقَ أَخٌ لَّهُ مِن قَبْلُ ۚ فَأَسَرَّهَا يُوسُفُ فِي نَفْسِهِ وَلَمْ يُبْدِهَا لَهُمْ ۚ…
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Evading parental responsibility was technically unheard of in Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib, still the life of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم carries lessons for single mothers amidst their diverse struggles. It shows how first, by Allah’s Taufeeq (grant of opportunity) to your child and secondly, by surrounding the child with the right mindset…
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When writing such posts, I ask myself so many times, am I going to allow it out this unfiltered? I have seen how shocked people can be when they hear me. But then I remember whoever may be living in these situations right now, as I write. How can I decorate my words to be…
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“You need to bl***y grow up” “You have no idea what you are doing” “You have great imagination, don’t you” “We never thought of you like that, what makes you say that??” It is only quite later that you realise why it was so important for the abuser to demean you whilst they do what…