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Choosing Allah’s Opinion (Even When It Hurts)
Lessons from a Quranic story
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People have so many opinions.
Opinions on how to eat, how to dress, how to walk and talk.
Opinions on what success looks like in the form of your career, rent price and the type of car you drive.
Opinions on even what being ‘practicing’ is from how you dress, to the number of classes you attend, to how many community projects your name is associated with.
And as humans, it’s very easy to just blindly follow those opinions.
You wonder, if so many people see this as success, if so many people I respect see this as success, it must be success then…right?
Ok then, you tell yourself, that’s what I’ll work towards. There might be a small inkling in you that tells you, this isn’t it. But you push that voice away, close your eyes and begin that path you’ve been told to take. And you continue to curate your life according to more and more opinions.
The thing is, these people might mean well. They might even believe that their opinions to what is success is what is more ‘Islamic’.
