For you, who is sharing one morsel of rice with three others For you, who is watching your child wither away, dying from pain For you, who stays awake all night to lull your child from the noise of bombs For you, the one who cannot offer the warmth your sick child needs For you, … Continue reading For you, who has a mother’s heart

Are you on Goodreads? I am! And for 2018 I decided to set myself a challenge to read 40 books in the whole year. Yes, I totally agree, what was I thinking? I managed to read 17 books. That’s if you don’t include reading ‘Elmer’ 1.9 billion times followed by ‘My Dad’s Beard’ a gazillion times … Continue reading My Top 5 Reads from 2018 – a challenge unaccomplished but a soul nourished

I write about wanting to be like them. I make dua that I want to be like them. I secretly wish I was like them. But I’m not like them. I am not like the mothers of pious men and women. I am not like the mothers who brought up thinkers, scholars and the sahaba. … Continue reading I am not like them but I want to please Him