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The Digital Sisterhood

Episode Four: Pretty Is As Pretty Does

The Digital Sisterhood

© The Digital Sisterhood Inc

Society & Culture, Documentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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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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