How do I still be that perfect daughter? You have to first take it back to the court and say, is it perfect in the eyes of Allah?

Because if they're asking or pressuring me about something,

you use the example of marriage,

and it's like, what does Allah want for me?

Well, we know that marriage is a highly, highly strong Sunnah and Islam,

but it's also not a foot in Islam,

as in to say, if the Nalib doesn't come, you know, and here they are trying to force me into something or like guilt trip me about something, well then that's wrong on their end.

So when you have two sides kind of playing talk of war, always take it back to Allah, always take it back to Allah, like always go back to Allah and His Prophet in terms of what is the answer exactly, right?

And that always helps clarify things of like,

what am I supposed to be doing here?

Have you ever played a game of tug-of-war, but with your parents, and it wasn't a game, but actually with your life?

You're listening to Unsween and Unfiltered the podcast, episode 8 of season 3.

The tug-of-war I'm talking about is the one where what your parents want for you doesn't necessarily align with what you want for yourself.

We've all been there, the shouting matches that end up with you and your parents not agreeing

on certain life choices of yours.

In today's episode, I had the pleasure and honor to sit down with Dr. Rania Awed to discuss

our relationships and boundaries or lack thereof with our parents and how we can find

compassion and empathy in the midst of our disagreements.

The past two weeks, I was grateful enough to celebrate the birthdays of both of my parents who were

born a year and one week apart. My mother was

born in Palestine and my dad in Venezuela, and somehow they crossed paths and soon thereafter

wedding bells began to ring. I skipped the whole part of when they immigrated to the States

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