Status Updates From Love in a Headscarf

I didn’t want someone who was identical to me but I did want someone who functioned along similar principles.

I wanted Prince Charming, romantic love, and to live happily ever after. I wanted to observe the cultural traditions of finding a husband. I wanted to follow the Islamic ideals of marriage. I also wanted to uncover spiritual love and harmony. I wanted to approach the Divine.

But what I really wanted was very simple: to make sense of the overwhelming contradictions and tangles facing me as a young Muslim woman.

The search for love is a resolute journey: to find out what it means to be human, and to share that humanity.