Career & Faith
1 min
CEO by Day, Muslim by Design
They said wearing a beard would hold me back in law. I wore it anyway. They took me seriously regardless.
Revert journeys. Identity struggles. Faith found, lost, and found again. Unfiltered voices from your brothers and sisters across the world.
In Egypt, a divorced woman is a tragedy. I decided to be a plot twist instead.
They said wearing a beard would hold me back in law. I wore it anyway. They took me seriously regardless.
I've answered 'why can't you eat pork?' approximately four hundred times. Here's my actual answer.
Our first year nearly ended because of where to live. What saved us was an imam who understood listening instead of lecturing.
When nobody else stepped up, our tiny mosque became the last line of defence — regardless of faith.
Our first year nearly ended because of biryani. What saved us was an imam who understood setting boundaries.
Everyone in my jehovah's witness community thought I'd lost my mind. I'd never been more sane.
It wasn't philosophy that pulled me away. It was loneliness. And it wasn't theology that brought me back. It was community.
Our first year nearly ended because of household chores. What saved us was an imam who understood marriage counselling.
It wasn't science that pulled me away. It was exhaustion. And it wasn't theology that brought me back. It was silence.
I've answered 'but why can't you drink?' approximately four hundred times. Here's my actual answer.
When nobody else stepped up, our tiny mosque became the only institution that stayed — Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
It wasn't philosophy that pulled me away. It was pain. And it wasn't theology that brought me back. It was beauty.