لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله

لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله life is for collecting good deeds - nothing more.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

some people have this warped concept of a good muslim woman being quiet, unseen, and passive. they confuse obedience to ﷲ with obedience to men. they think modesty means being completely invisible, and they associate femininity with silence, introversion, and having weak boundaries. a woman can be deeply god-fearing and still have a strong personality, confidence, opinions, ambitions, desires and a voice of her own. she can be kind and soft without being submissive to everyone, and feminine without shrinking herself to be accepted by everyone. a woman’s piety doesn’t require the erasure of her personality.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

when a man can’t accept that these sides can exist within the same woman, he may end up wanting one woman for marriage while desiring another to satisfy the desires he refuses to associate with his wife. this type of compartmentalising goes completely against the islamic teachings on honouring women. a woman is a whole human being, not a category based on which parts of her you are comfortable with.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

some muslim men fall into what psychology calls the madonna-whore complex. they unconsciously divide women into two categories. “good” women who are reserved and dress modest, therefore worthy of respect. “sexual” women who are confident in themselves, and who they often find more desirable but less worthy of love, respect, dignity or commitment.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

women can be both modest and sensual, both respectable and deeply sexual, both soft and passionate, both confident and god-fearing. a woman can carry herself with modesty and still have a deeply sensual side within the boundaries that ﷲ has ordained. these qualities do not cancel each other out. a woman does not become less than because she has desires. purity and sensuality are not opposing identities. a woman is a whole human being. she is not to be placed into a category based on which parts of her you are comfortable with.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

just do the good deed you’ve been avoiding. send the voice note. pray the prayer. apologise. give the charity. seek the knowledge. rectify your intention. don’t wait for the right moment because death doesn’t wait for you. our prophet ﷺ advised us that even if the day of judgement were about to start, and we were holding a baby plant in our hand, we should quickly plant it. imagine something as crazy as the world ending is taking place, yet we’re still encouraged to use the moment to do good.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

one of the sweetest favours of ﷲ is when he sends you a person who holds up a mirror to you. they show you the parts of yourself you have overlooked, the wounds that need healing, the beauty you struggle to see, and all the potential you have buried deep within yourself. sometimes they stay, sometimes they leave. either way, they leave you with realisations that help you become a better person. they uncover something within you that ﷲ wanted you to see. all praise be to the lord of all creation, who never leaves us to ourselves.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

as we enter the last portion of 2026, it’s time to look back at the goals you set at the start of the year and really lock in. what have you accomplished? what have you learnt? what have you left behind? what has ﷲ redirected you from? and who have you become along the way? there’s still time. the year isn’t over, and neither is your opportunity to return to ﷲ, seek forgiveness, rebuild your habits, pursue what matters to you, and become more intentional with the time you’ve been given. don’t write off the rest of the year if it hasn’t gone the way you imagined. the remaining months could be exactly what you need to finish your year closer to ﷲ than you started.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

i’m a firm believer in the fact that your real soulmate comes in when you are aligned with your soul and start living from love and purpose.

[لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله @azvdeh]

if you ask ﷲ for growth, don’t be surprised when it rains. not everything that disrupts your peace is sent to destroy it. maybe the very thing that you’re asking ﷲ to remove will wake you up or shift your perspective. your ego might hate it, because the ego wants to grow without being challenged. it wants to stay comfortable and in control, but ﷲ knows us better than we know ourselves, and sometimes growth looks like looking into a mirror. you might be humbled, have your perspective challenged, or be shown parts of yourself you weren’t ready to see. discomfort isn’t always a sign that you’re going the wrong way, sometimes it’s just the ego resisting the wake-up call.