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'At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me and ask me to marry him. Then he would convert to Islam and become a devoted Muslim.' Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under... read more
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“It is a universally acknowledged truth that all Asian parents want their children to get married and settle down.”
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Jihad actually meant “spiritual struggle.” It meant doing your best to live the highest moral and ethical life.
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years’ time, who will remember if it was your mistake or his? You’re on the same side, so does it matter if you apologize and he made the mistake? What he will remember is that he had a wife who loved him, and who he still cares about after so many years.”
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Only within this structure of commitment, which gave formal security to both husband and wife, and only with the formal consent given by both the man and the woman to begin the relationship could love fully flourish. Marriage was an act of worship and love was the gift given in return.
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Muhammad advised her that looking after even those who show you difficulties is what being a Muslim was all about.
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the most amazing of miracles—a virgin birth. But in Islamic tradition, there is no Joseph involved in the story of the birth, no man to diminish the central role of the woman in this story. Instead, she is in her own right a shining independent icon, a woman leading her own life.
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Up to this point, there was an echo with St. Anselm’s proof of God. Anselm had suggested that God must exist because God was perfect, and a quality of perfection is existence so, piff paff pooff! God must exist. I liked this proof of God because of its logical neatness.
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The ability to wait, to hold yourself with dignity and thankfulness when you can’t have what you want, or can’t have it quite yet, is one of the hardest qualities to master.
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that I felt subhuman in Britain, and the first day that I felt scared to live in my own country.
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Human beings are the best of all creatures, and they exist to know and love the Divine. We’ve been created for the very simple and single purpose: to love.”
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to work, from work, literally mapping out my life. The two parts balanced each other perfectly and I realized that both the sublime and the mundane fit together.
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I'm keeping a very surprising story under my headscarf. I'd Like to tell it to you but you must promise not to keep my secret.
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- Shelina Zahra Janmohamed (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
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