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The Morning After IAW
Sumayya Mohammed The morning after Islam Awareness Week feels surreal, as I wake up to the light shining through my window, with new memories of something greater than I could have ever imagined, knowing it is only through my Lord that I experience this profound form of guidance Who was I to have become this person? What have I ever done to deserve this amount of goodness? As I sit on my prayer mat and stare at the place where my forehead rested just moments ago, I feel a deep sense of gratitude, reverence, and indescribable awe for my ever-kind Lord I stepped into this role with His Permission to spread the truth to others, but He reminds me time and time again that I am the one who is in desperate need of His Guidance, that I am the one who is in need of more knowledge, that I am forever in His debt to have been guided to become a devout Muslim We are all just vessels for our Lord I wonder, Allah— What did You see in us? What made us worthy enough to preach Your Divine Message on our tongues? Please keep us upon Your Deen, Ya Rabb-- Ya al-Malik, Ya an-Nur-- for we are nothing and no one without Your Mercy and Your Permission, for we are prone to drowning in darkness for every second that we spend in the absence of Your Light Ameen, Ya Rabbil ‘Alameen. |
