You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.

There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).

When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.

To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.