Staring at my bare hands, I wondered where did I go wrong?
I did everything I thought to be the right thing. Yet, why had my life ended up this way? What should I have done instead—I wish someone would tell me—I wish there was a book—A sort of guidebook to help me understand where to go from here.
"How can you be so happy all the time? I always feel like I am stranded on a dessert and walking aimlessly on an empty barren road. Like there is sun scorching over my head and I am banging at a huge door which never opens—I wish someone would just make me a guidebook telling me what to do—!"
"But you do have it, Aasi—! Allah has sent Quran as a guidance for mankind. You have everything that you need to live in this world, right here—! That and the sunnah of our Prophet PBUH—!"
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