Comments on: The Stupid Glass Slipper

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:37:40 +0000

Your daughter is super cute, MashAllah! ^-^ Thank you for sharing that with us. c:

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By: Hmm

Hmm — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:04:47 +0000

Love is a feeling that Allah (SWT) has granted to us, and we should be thankful for it because not all things (like angels) have this emotion. I agree that love should be islamic... but I don't think that finding someone who in addition to be a good muslim, is nice and makes you feel good and smile inside is something we should push away. Love is mysterious, but it is real and something we should cherish even if it can't be explained completely.

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By: UG

UG — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:19:38 +0000

I can't stand Disney, either!! It's all based on superficialities. It disgusts me! I love the article by the way!

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By: maryam zahoor

maryam zahoor — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:42:41 +0000

wow. I love that whole story and the end bit!! JazakAllah!!!

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By: ummanas

ummanas — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:09:53 +0000

Masha Allah sister. Thank you for this. It really made me think... wasalaam

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By: noble person

noble person — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:31:12 +0000

this story is very interesting and also give us another viewto see the things that called love... i hope the writer can published more this kind of story... tq very much,maybe after this alot ofpeople can understand what is love about.. not only a nice,sweet,'religious' mate.. but a lot more... wassalam..

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By: Amatullah

Amatullah — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:33:38 +0000

And Allah know best

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By: Amatullah

Amatullah — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:18:40 +0000

Alhamdulillah someone else noticed how missed-up disney fairy-tales really are, strange through that books about magic* were in an Islamic school, when magic is Shirk!! That makes Disney almost a complete no-no in the first places... worse than pornography (at least its not Shirk) “but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, ‘We are for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us)’” [al-Baqarah 2:102]

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By: Shahrukh

Shahrukh — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:56:50 +0000

What one can do when whom you love madly doesn't love you : ( at all,other things are secondary to me.

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By: Emad

Emad — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:10:30 +0000

I really like this! I think it wakes up those individuals living in a world of magical fantasy that they think loving someone is all about; this article encourages a more reality-based perspective. I know I used to think like this a while ago and I know so many people that still think like this; to just “be in love” or want a feeling of love but not at all thinking about its viability. For example, I know people that are apparently in love with people of other religions (example –> muslim men liking non-muslim women) and while there is nothing wrong with this…once again, a longer look is needed in order to see whether the relationship’s future is possible. Simply living in a world of magic and daydreams doesn’t do justice to whether something is possible or not. You may love someone but there may be too many obstacles for that love to become an attainable marriage; there’s nothing wrong with being smart with your emotions –> emotional intelligence.

…What’s amazing is that I was thinking about this exact same thing and the story of “Cinderella” in particular just a few hours ago so I was astonished when I encountered this article and started wondering whether I was actually reading what I was reading, or just imagining my thoughts. I guess it is a very surreal feeling when you think something and the next thing you know is that what you were thinking about but not telling anyone about shows up in reality in front of you and someone else starts talking about it :/

What I wanna point out is that there is one thing in the article that I would disagree with, lol, though it’s for the women to decide whether my disagreement is legit I guess. The author of the article makes a point as to how ridiculous it is that the Prince marries Cinderella because the shoe fits and that Cinderella agrees to marriage due to these events. I understand the case being made with a view that the marriage is really superficial in the sense that Cinderella got all dolled up with a beautiful dress, and had a dance due to the fact that the Prince seems to be a handsome looking fellow from the exterior, not to mention probably very rich in worldly material. In that regard I agree that this type of judgement can be made on some sort of a higher ratio of superficiality exisiting, due to the lack of personal knowledge between life partners, but I also think that an important point of personality has been missed about the Prince’s character in the course of the author’s personal agenda to prove her point; which is that the Prince made personal efforts to return a lossed item to the women named Cinderella. This implies a personal duty of caring or affection which is an action that does not arrive because of his external features, but rather through his internal sense of character. I think if a man were to go around the kingdom to return something as little and simple as a shoe that has been lost, if not all, usually most women would be quite touched by such an action. So therein, lies my disagreement about the judgement on that union of the Prince and Cinderella being fully superficial, but, ofcourse, I’m sure it can be debated

However, regardless of the latter point just made, I am still against the Cinderella story and would not show it to my own future children or, specifically, a daughter (insh’Allah and only by the mercy of Allah, swt) due to the fact that it instills little girls at a young age with a view to being sweeped off their feet by glamour, materialism, and largely superficial love.

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