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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Author Lina Ahmed talks to us about her book, "Beauty Fee Sabiliah", a book that challenges the reader in understanding what it truly means to Be Beautiful.
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0:00.0 | Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. |
0:04.8 | It's your girl, Adir, and you're listening to the Digital Sisterhood Podcast. |
0:11.5 | Preface page 6 |
0:15.5 | We appreciate this guy on an aesthetic basis, not realizing that his function is beautiful. |
0:20.4 | It produces beauty. It is very being, it's beautiful. It is beautiful. |
0:27.5 | As we were enamored with its colors, we oftentimes do not connect |
0:31.5 | that it is the same sky that sends snow, rain, clouds, and acts as a buffer against the sun. |
0:38.6 | Many of us viscerally appreciate the sky and usually do not comprehend the substance of its work. |
0:46.3 | It beautifies itself in others due its actions. |
0:50.5 | Thus from the sky, we learn that beauty is not a state. It's a practice. |
0:55.6 | So that, I just read the pages from this book called Beauty Fisi Bilila by Lena Ahmed. |
1:02.3 | Well the reason why I'm reading this page is that it's incredibly beautiful, |
1:06.0 | but be because there's actually a story behind it. |
1:08.8 | There was a day, actually recently a few weeks ago, where I was having a debate with friends about beauty. |
1:14.9 | And it was basically two against one. I didn't like their definition of beauty or their perspective. |
1:21.6 | Matter of fact, they used Kevin Samuel to prove their point. |
1:27.2 | And at the time, I felt like I couldn't explain what it is I was trying to explain about beauty. |
1:34.5 | I felt like I was mumbled, I felt like I was being overtaken, |
1:39.2 | and their perspective took me back to a time where I had similar perspectives of external beauty. |
1:46.4 | But now, you know, with the veil removed from my eyes, I no longer see beauty in that way. |
1:53.7 | So I ended the conversation, stormed off, right? |
1:59.4 | I went on Instagram the first story I saw was a story of my friends on Instagram story. |
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