Assalam alaykum ummati! I genuinely hope you and your loved ones are doing great. For my brothers and sisters that are sick, wounded and troubled, may Allah swt grant you all shifa and sakina and may He mend the hearts of the broken-hearted. So, it dawned on me a couple of days ago that I'm [...]
2018 would go down in history as one of the most challenging years in my life. If my life were a book and you were to flip through the pages and land on chapter 2018, you would be sure to find that all its pages are highlighted or emboldened to emphasis how deeply impacting the [...]
Assalam Alaykum, I hope you are all doing great today. So I'll be honest and transparent with you guys but since the last day of Ramadan, I've been in a fuzzy and nostalgic mood. The reason simply being that I miss Ramadan a lot and the the sense of security it provided me. It was [...]
This post is dedicated to one of my lovely readers who made the kind request to write on the matter. I imagine she is going through a tough time at the moment and its why I pushed myself to get this content out as quickly and as early as possible. Unrequited love is no doubt [...]
If you know me well then you know that I am an extremely picky person and picky people are not exactly the easiest people to deal with or to hang out with (largely due to the fact that they have very fixed and definitive choices and their minds cannot be easily changed). To better understand [...]
Since I got married a lot of my friends and family have been curious as to what my first time was like. I respond by telling them the most common answer; which is it was awkward and painful. I’ll be upfront by saying that before I got married I possibly imagined what losing my virginity [...]
"Who are you? Tell me who is Hasiya?" My eyes rested on the dark pair of eyes that was inches away from my face and was deeply fixated on me...his eyes were a pool of concern and curiosity. His question sounded like something I had heard and responded to a million times before but when Tope [...]
Hey guys, so I am keeping today' s post short and simple. This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW). Mental Health is something I am very passionate about and not many people know this about me. I've been wanting to write and talk about this for so long but I never had the chance [...]
There's a kind of unhappiness that is shared by many, and it's the unhappiness of not knowing who you really are or living a life that is other than your authentic self. I've been a victim of this unhappiness and I shall henceforth refer to it as the 'plague'. You know that feeling where you're [...]
I rolled over on my stomach and heaved a deep sigh. I ejected the movie and decided it was one I would watch every year on christmas eve. "You know love scares me" I glanced over at my cousin who had a weary look on her face. "Why?" I asked intrigued by her random statement. "There is just something about [...]
