I find the concept of praying for a good man to be so useless. like of all the things you could pray for. I get so offended when people suggest I do that. As if I’d waste a prayer like that.
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I’ve never seen anyone from the male side ever pray for a good wife or woman. I had cousins who when they went on Hajj or may be Umrah, asked for good husbands. Like… I can’t ever imagine men doing that. They don’t need to do it.
But I think what’s interesting is that, in all this, all the power dynamics that we fail to admit to ourselves, become so very apparent. The reason people pray for good fortune and future of their daughters with respect to the husband, and not for their son with respect to the wife, is because they’re handing over their daughters fates completely. The husband has complete power. In terms of her relocating, her compromising, and if it doesn’t work out, she’s marred and he’s unscathed. And whether we do it like this overtly anymore or not, or it use to be more the case for our mothers, you can see it still exists in the language. The things we pray for. The words we call our daughters. The idioms we have in our language. You can trace it.
how do people peacefully sit outside in the grass like….. there are bugs there
’i’m with you,’
three simple words
that make you feel
like the world as you know it
has not shattered.
Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)
But I swear, you find the best things when you’re not looking for them.
unexpectedly found you.. // 4.5.17 (via serendipitywave)
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(via i-nimit-able)
Is the reward for good [anything] but good?
Quran 55:50 (via islam-reflections)
me as a wife: emails you at your work address so you smile during meetings
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