Category: Faith
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My Grandma Published a Book at 80: Defying Age and Breaking Social Norms
For as long as I can remember, I’ve found social constructs amusing. How Society loves to set timelines for when we should reach certain milestones—graduating, getting married, having kids, or achieving career success. If we don’t hit these marks within a “reasonable” time, we start to feel like failures. I’ve worked hard over the years…
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MY FIRST UMRAH: A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE
I had the privilege of performing Umrah (Lesser Hajj) at the end of 2021, and without a doubt, it was the highlight of my year. I was especially excited to be going with my mum. The timing felt perfect—it was exactly what I needed. For months, I had felt stuck and spent a lot of…
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Ramadan in a Time of Pandemic
Is anyone else as excited as I am that Ramadan is here? They say the more one’s faith grows, the more changes one begins to notice in one’s life. This extends to Ramadan. Since I became a lot more conscious about my deen, I’ve constantly looked forward to Ramadan. A couple of years back, I…
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My First Itikaaf: An Unforgettable Experience
Alhamdulilah for granting us another opportunity to witness and experience this year’s Ramadan. May Almighty Allah grant us the blessings of this holy and beautiful month. Ameen. I’ve had to go through several experiences these past few years of learning and unlearning and for the most part growing and blossoming. While some of these experiences…
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God’s love(Half way there)
You know, she loved before. At that time she thought it was the most beautiful feeling ever. And it was. Or at least she thought it was. To have that one person she could share her thoughts with, That one person she could fall back on when things were not going well. That one person…
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Forming Attachments Other than Allah
I came across this on twitter the other day and it really got me thinking. It was like the answer to everything happening around me. Subhanallah! If you dig deep you will understand. The problems we all face today is mostly caused by this. We turn away from him, form attachments with things unrelated to…
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Wake up Call
The way people die nowadays is really scary. I mean you could be laughing with someone the night before, and wake up the next morning to hear about the person’s demise. Wallah, this is some wake up call!. And we are all still so blinded by this worldly life to even realize it. It’s not…
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RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
Comfortably sitting in my corner of the room as the new intern, I listened interestingly to the conversations going on around me, and one caught my attention, it was the issue of Religious intolerance going on nowadays. It was my first official day at the media company where I planned to undergo my one month…
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Why Do You Cover Your Hair?
“Why do you cover your hair”? When a non-Muslim or even a Muslim who isn’t practicing asks me this question, I just look at them and say ‘I cover my hair because I am a Muslim”. They never get satisfied with this reply, so they ask further “But I know a lot of Muslim girls that do not cover their hair”… I…
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MY HIJAB, MY IDENTITY
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE MOST MERCIFUL Why would I feel ashamed when I put on my hijab? When my Lord has made it a mandatory part of my Deen I look out there and I weep Seeing muslim women forced to remove their veil Why do you have to…