SOPHIA I spend the rest of the day at home. Over the course of a few weeks, I’ve become regular in my prayers. Somehow, it’s only in prostration that I feel the closest to Allah SWT. I’ve learnt many things in life. The most important being: there is nobody that can pull you out of the darkness if Allah doesn’t will. And it’s through Him that you can find peace and contentment. I’d almost drowned but Allah SWT chose to pull me out, to help me, for reasons I can never understand. It’s hard to explain how difficult my journey has been. Ever since I was a child, I couldn’t ever know the real me. Abdallah was right. Seeing what’s deep inside of me has made me understand myself so much better. The kind of decisions I make on instinct, the way I treat people, it has nothing to do with t

