In spirit of the last post, and along the same lines, sometimes when I am asked whether if all can be achieved without referring to religion or if I see any usefulness or need of it, I recount the story of myself reading the following hadith: Anas Ibn Malik narrates: "Whilst we were in the …
Author: TFF
On Whether We Require Religion to be Moral
I wasn't, until rather recently, one to suggest / wonder if religion is the only way to decipher between what is moral and what is immoral. Though upon receiving inquiries as to whether I believed someone could be a moral person without religion my answer had consistently been yes, admittedly what I truly felt was …
[CLOSED] Lingerie Giveaway!
This is open to all locations, all religions, and all sexes. I'd actually wanted to do this giveaway sometime last year, but I kept putting it off because I wasn't sure how to go about it, considering lingerie is hardly a one-size-fits-all sort of thing! And then I figured I should hurry up with this …
valentine’s
When I was little this was my favorite holiday, a truth I avoided professing until I reached a point in my life when I didn't give a toss. Aside from the gruesome origin of the holiday (that's sure a downer) I was fond of notes, flowers, red and pink, the expression of affections, and decorative …
blogiversary
It was yesterday. I completely forgot. It's been THREE TWO YEARS! (Not three, just three Januaries.) I love everyone!
internal speculations
A few years ago I would daydream consistently of having a daughter. I don't know where I'd have had her from, because she was biologically mine but there was never anyone else. And I mean that in quite possibly every way: there were no friends of mine either, or family. And I must have deprived …
Why Nudity Doesn’t Work (for Islamic Feminism)
Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
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