Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British writer Shelina Zahra Janmohamed.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed is a British writer. She is the author of Love in a Headscarf (2009), a memoir of growing up as a British Muslim woman. Her new book titled Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World was published in August 2016. Generation M, as The Guardian puts it, "is the first detailed portrait" of the influential segment of the world’s "fastest growing religion", Islam. She is also a blogger: her blog is called Spirit 21.

An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.
Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe. — © Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Poetry is designed to inspire love, and islam is about falling in love with the creator of the universe.
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