I thought hope was a waste to spend on myself.I didn’t think I was worth the hassle of the light. I just wanted to be left alone in the dark. In silence. In stillness. In nothingness. But I soon learnt that the dark is where everything that hates the light resides. I don’t hate the light. I hate myself.

And it hit me that hating myself is hating the light Allaah inspired in me…