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Frustrations that women feel that they cannot do the same amount of worship as men in Ramadan. Many of us have to miss fasts due to menstruation, or miss tarawih in the masjid due to having small kids, plus we have to spend so much time cooking.
What would it be like to have full confidence that everything is going to be okay? What about having clear guidelines on what you need to do to make things better? As Muslims, we have easy access to such support and comfort. We just need to relearn how to get there.
Recently, a woman needed an official document signed by a government official. She was lucky enough to get in touch with a high-level official who kindly offered to help her, asking her to come at a certain time to the administrative office so he could take care of her need. After she arrived and went through security, she was led to the building where the official’s office was.
Imam al-Ghazali, the renowned 11th-century scholar of the outward and inward Islamic sciences, was known by his contemporaries as Hujjat al-Islam, the living proof of the religion itself, and then
