Knowing your partners love language is SO important. Not listening to them when they tell you how they need to be loved will have them feeling very neglected. Don’t matter how much you THINK youre loving them. If it’s not in their language, the love won’t reach them.
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According to one Islamic model, the soul has three stages. In the first seven years, it is known as the appetitive soul. The primary concerns of children in this stage are eating and wanting attention. The second stage is the next seven years, the age of anger, when kids react strongly to stimuli and are annoyed easily. The third is the rational stage, when reasoning and discernment reach their full capacity. ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib encouraged parents to play with their children during the first stage, to indulge them, for they are discovering the world. They had been in a spiritual realm and have only recently entered the realm of the sensory. In the second stage, Imam ʿAlī counseled that parents should focus on training and discipline, for, in this stage, young people have a heightened capacity to receive and absorb information and thus learn new things. In the third stage, parents should befriend them and form a relationship that is amicable and full of kindness and companionship. After this, their children, now adults, should be set free.
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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Knowing your partners love language is SO important. Not listening to them when they tell you how they need to be loved will have them feeling very neglected. Don’t matter how much you THINK youre loving them. If it’s not in their language, the love won’t reach them.
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When discussing the issue of Female Genital Mutilation, Circumcision or Cutting (FGMCC) although it seems to be popular in the “Muslim World” the history and relations of what is considered this part of the world and where this practice is found brings some complications to those analyzing the issue and wishing to understand the root cause of such a medieval seeming practice. There are a few rationalizations or justifications given that I even admit to running through my thoughts when attempting to come to terms with this practice. Although there are more stringent views on the topic on a national level whether you look at places like Egypt that may be majority Muslim today but has an extravagant history that reflects the society today with a significant christian population but yet the predominance of FGMCC seems to refuse to wither I attribute this to most of the societies that seem to instill this practice are heavily patriarchal for whatever reason to the point that where women who have undergone the procedure regardless of their experiences continue the practice with their own daughters most of the time due to commonality of the practice in these places which is what needs to change as all else in the world does over time. The Egyptian case got to the point that it was made illegal to do in rural and barely equipped places where the issue tried to be regulated for the health risks it brought to healthcare professionals meaning doctors who may be more equipped and culturally sensitive aware to the practice and the outcomes of such a ritual on a developed or underdeveloped adolescent.
The failure of this attempt resulted in individuals doing it in secret making it a public taboo of sorts to hide from the government and therefore different tactics are needed to combat the multilayered factors of the issue of ending a the practice of FGMCC worldwide eventually by eradicating it through individualized studies and understanding of the issue on a case by case basis by country and locality. There needs to be a joint and solid movement of advocates, activists and global citizens willing to become experts on a multitude of relatable issues to solve this dilemma. This is not simply religious, or ritual or political or social sometimes its all sometimes its one of the following and we need aware people on the ground to discern the cause of the practice wherever it is found.
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How could you be against free college. Like if I think about student loans for more than a few minutes I think about jumping off a cliff have some pity damn
Because hundreds of thousands of people have already paid for their tuition. Should they be reimbursed? It’s not fair to the people who have already paid/ are paying for college. That’s why.
Yeah I love thinking how my kids are gonna cry and have panic attacks because of the heavy student loans they’re gonna have just because they want to go to a good school. Yeah I really want them to suffer just like I did bc yknow I paid why should they have it any easier than me?? I don’t want America to be better than I found it. Fuck future generations.
i dont think we should use cars because it’s not fair to the people who had to travel via horseback. should they be resurrected with necromancy and allowed to apply for a drivers license? think logically here
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