And He is with you wherever you are [57:4]

One of the reasons why so many of us are going astray nowadays is because we do not read the Seerah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

As a woman, Islam tells me, I’m not here on display and my body is not for public consumption. I’m not to allow anyone to reduce me to an object. I am a soul, a mind, a servant of God. I don’t worship beauty standards, and don’t submit to fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character, and so when you look at me, that character is all you should see, not my body. With my veil I put my faith on display, rather than my beauty, because my value as a human being is defined by my relationship with god, and so I cover the irrelevant, and when you look at me, you view me only as what I am, a servant of the Creator.

“فأنت جميل بلا شك، لكنك لست أصل الجمال، فجمالك تجلى من جمال الجميل. You surely are beautiful, but not the origin of beauty, for your beauty came from the beauty of the most beautiful.”

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.