The Middle Path
Dr. Samaiya MushtaqEssays on faith, mind, and modern life from a Muslim psychiatrist and mom.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 64 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Marrying a Good Person Isn't Enough
Too often in Desi and/or Muslim communities, we characterize divorce as a character deficiency or a spiritual aberration.
If you marry the “right” person, and you both fear Allah, it all works out fine.
When it doesn’t—when a marriag...
My Book Is Out
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alamin. All praise is due to God, the Lord of all worlds.
It’s one of the first verses of the Qur’an—how we end the month, with the start of the next recitation. A continuous relationship, not a finite end.
Last ye...
What Your Language Reveals About Your Moral Justifications
I remember, some time before Mahmoud left for his medical mission in Gaza, we were walking together in a store and I turned to him and said, “It would be like if the sky just opened up and a bomb fell on us. Right now. That’s how crazy it i...
Ramadan teaches you patience. Life tests it.
A friend of mine is reckoning with her husband’s absence, two Ramadans after my own husband’s first medical mission to Gaza. I was sitting with her on a park bench, and she asked me about what it was like, and how Mahmoud’s time there chang...
Why I'm Not Measuring Ramadan By My Mosque Attendance
I hear it on the WhatsApp groups I’m in, or in conversation with other mothers when discussing Ramadan:
The negotiation of splitting nights with a spouse.
Or the FOMO of not going to taraweeh at all.
Lamenting the lost spirit of Ramada...
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Muslim, psychiatrist, mom, wife. Constantly thinking, sometimes writing. Author of a newly released memoir.
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