spiritual abuse
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In trying to build a safe world for a child, you may gently repair the world that once broke you. It’s amazing how it works. But Allah works in wondrous ways. We were taught that to love is to endure. But what happens when we realize that to love is, in fact, to protect? To…
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It is a wonderful experience to transform from being an object into becoming a human being. It is a wonderful feeling to reach a point where you have little to lose, and to walk free of the invisible and indescribable net that once held you down with such tyrannical force. Recently, as I concluded a…
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The game-changer comes when the abused realise that healing—shifaa’—can never come from the same source that broke them and made them question their worth. Whether in blood ties, marriage, friendship, or any other relationship. Had this been any other dynamic, we’d call it absurd: to seek solace from the very place that causes the most…