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البدايةChapter I — Seventeen
It started with a question that made me cry on my own birthday.
Seventeen years old. Everyone around me had the houses, the cars, the trips — and I broke down, not out of envy, but because I couldn't answer one question:
Why not me? Why can't I be the one who provides that?
I never needed to ask again. Every day since has been the answer.
الإيمانChapter V — What I Stand On
﴿ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا۟ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ ﴾
"Indeed, Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves."
Surah Ar-Ra'd · 13:11
Not a quote on a wall. A daily practice. I change what is in me, and I trust Him with the rest.