Welcome back to our fortnightly Two Sense series, in which Selina, Nafisa + Sara,  hit the roundtable to put their two cents on 4 subjects they’d each like to unpack and debate as being either overrated or underrated, making sense of everything from the mundane to the taboo and giving way to often useful and layered perspectives.

This week the ladies are bringing in the overrated category:

Nafisa:

• Cancelling yourself for having a bad ramadan before it’s even over!

Selina:

• Ornamental plants; Your aloe vera’s and your rubber trees – turn your house into a greenhouse instead! 
• Feel good factor Islam / YouTube islam

Sara:

Quarantine has pushed some people into hobby making + new skills – being ‘talented’ is finding its way out…

This week the ladies are bringing in the underrated category:

Nafisa:

• The impact of the patriarchy and how it impacts how we navigate our deen as Muslim women, using the example of Muslim women being prohibited from visiting the dead. 

Selina:

• The Deen doesn’t require a homogenous personality.

Sara:

A book recommendations list for the last 10 nights of Ramadan:

• Don’t Be Sad by Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni 

• Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam by A. Helwa

• Prayers for Forgiveness by Imam Hasan Al Basri

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