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The first story was SO GOOD. And it made me really angry at the same time.

“Bismillahi alladhee la yadurru ma'a ismihi shay'un fee al-ardi wa la fee as-samaa’i wa huwa as-samee'u
al-'aleem”. 3x after fair, 3x after asr/maghrib 🫶🏼

I know it says to not get carried away with dreams or expect dreams when you do istikhara, I agree, some dreams will come at certain times during the night that shouldn’t be thought of as true dreams. I have had dreams after istikhara that were vivid, dreams from istikhara that played out the same in real life.

“You ask your heart why is it always hurting. It says ‘this is the only thing you will allow me to say to you. The only feeling you are willing to feel.’”

The way she describes colourism and the pressure to look white, these are the strongest pieces. I let out a woah.

Okay, he’s mentioned hate crime and noted a community, sure, but according to research, at the time, my fellow Muslims and the Eastern European community faced the most hate crime. European people have been covered, but lack of mention of my community and a high proportion were hijabi women.

He says there is a difference between causation & correlation when it comes to whether it caused an increase in hate crime. But before, he basically implied that Brexit would cause problems in the NHS although there were other clear pre-existing factors. I feel uncomfortable that hate crime is being downplayed as we know things worldwide, even attacks on places, can lead to hate crime here against Muslims.

Do you guys think swear words and words like “snowflake” derail conversation? I think people naturally get angry and say names but at the same time I don’t know how much it achieves.

The money Britain earns from international students is insane, supports more than 200,000 jobs in the uni areas and cities across UK. Total spending by international students and their visitors generates £25.8 billion in gross output.

Mention of the Louvre right now is bonkers.

It’s just so sad when you hear the elderly being put in care homes. One of the most beautiful things about being south Asian, Muslim, is we don’t forget the concept of community as modern as we are (as I am too), community care for the elderly isn’t forgotten.

I’ve been fascinated with interpreting data recently and I think it’s an interesting choice to pin NHS staff shortages alone on key events like Brexit as there have been other factors which can always play into this and that’s true for many roles and not just the NHS alone e.g. skills gap, training, retention, etc.

A woman broke her collarbone and it took 2 and a half hours for the ambulance to come. NHS staff shortages cited. I heard of someone, man, had two heart attacks :( and by the second one the ambulance still hadn’t come. But apparently the person was downplaying what was happening which doesn’t help.

There’s a hospital in London that receives high praise for how they deal with a variety of medical conditions, but guess what it’s two weak spots are? One is especially unsurprising: gynaecology and maternity.

What does “larger slice of a shrinking cake” mean and why can’t it be said plainly? I did find the statistics on the nhs interesting during the campaigns.

So it’s reported that in America, antibiotics are being used in animal pens, and it’s being used on animals so much that Goldman Sachs have predicted that in 35 years that this might effect the possibility of being able to do cancer treatments and C-sections.

I think it would have been better if it was less pithy. There’s clearly a great amount of research that’s gone into this, but the writing style makes it difficult to understand what he’s saying. It would work better if the writing was nice and simple.

I have always just really liked Audrey, I rate her so much.

Tolly talks about when white women used tears to derail conversations in the workplace. I thought back to a time long ago, thankfully not where I am now, where a white woman couldn’t fathom that I have hearing loss. She said: “she tried to say she has hearing loss” like she didn’t believe me. Should have taken her down to the audiologist appt when I got my CROS hearing aid fitting for the first time.

Wow, I’m really shocked by the racism the suffered. Well, not shocked, but one part in particular shocked me that Tolly described because Tolly is 27/28. This wasn’t 80s, so I’m so shocked.

I’ve just realised my last 5 reads I’ve rated 3 stars. What’s it gonna take now for me to go higher.

I just have to laugh. I just ate lentil curry and my stomach has reacted poorly which had not happened in the past that I recall of, and the book is saying lentils are bad for the stomach 😂😂. Guys I just have to laugh. Do you think there’s a message behind this?

Me and my bonkers life. My voice was cracking this morning because I’ve got the cold and of all times I open the book and it says eat this to make your voice finer. What’s going on!!!???? This is madness!! Why do books keep corresponding to what’s going on in my life! What does this all mean? Is it a phenomena?

In the Qur’an it says that in heaven that we get a cup of wine with ginger and that sounds 🤤. I love ginger additions to drinks (halal of course).

I’m sorry at this point I have to laugh now. I’ve got a cold and I’ve got throat, chest and lung symptoms and I’m at a section where it keeps recommending things specifically for these 😅 but please make dua for me

I especially need to start eating more dates it’s so good for the liver.

This is a holiday kind of read. Light-hearted. Just what I needed.

I ordered perfume after a long while, it was delivered today m and guess which heading I’m on? Perfume. Lol.

I love that it says souls recognise each other from the past life before we came here and we naturally do not like the ones we didn’t get along with better. It’s crazy how so many of us have met someone and instantly recognised or bonded with them like we’ve known each other all our lives, it’s such a beautiful feeling 🫶🏼💕

Oh these parts on sex I’m not gonna lie I felt a little nervous reading it and I definitely wanna see what others had to say about it because some parts on certain aspects of sex are lengthy.