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Strangers & Travelers • Thariq Shihipar

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On being a stranger in the world, and how to change it without changing yourself.

Strangers & Travelers We’re told in Islam- Be in this world as a stranger, or a traveler. A traveler takes nothing. Leaves only footprints. Doesn’t get attached to the inns along the way. Because it’s more likely that the world will change you, than you will change the world. At times this feels hard, even cruel. Why abdicate your responsibility to the world? It began as something strange, and it will return to being strange — so glad tidings to the strangers. I used to think this was a warning about the difficulty of faith. But now I read it differently. Being strange is not a curse. It is th

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