“After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began to realize something profound. I had always thought that love of dunya meant being attached to material things. And I was not attached to material things. I was attached to people. I was attached to moments. I was attached to emotions. So I thought that the love of dunya just did not apply to me. What I didn’t realize was that people, moments, emotions are all a part of dunya. What I didn’t realize is that all the pain I had experienced in life was due to one thing, and one thing only: love of dunya.”
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“[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need society's standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don't need to become just like men to be honored, and we don't need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lie not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
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