patience
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If you’ve rarely been handed things on a golden plate, then you may have subconsciously, over the years, developed a precious skill: resourcefulness. Solid and strong. Perhaps you are yet to grasp how valuable and transferable that skill is. And yet to even label it as strength. Resourcefulness; to make do with what you have.…
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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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Limbs broken. Hands and faces scraped. Tears in their eyes. And very, very tired faces. Blood. Blood everywhere. I read that Gaza has the most number of child amputees. What are you doing? Why are you leaving us in this state? Our internal organs hanging out? Our hair greying before age? When you witness the…
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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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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…