Amayra
“You may be beautiful, but you’ll never be Amayra” You know, there are people you meet in life… and then, there are souls you encounter. One is a meeting of human to human, the other, soul to soul, heart to heart. It sounds like an old, classic, philosophical thought but I’m gonna prove it to you today that it really does happen. And the mind begins to understand it just as slowly as the soul does. Slowly, gently, steadily. The soul I believe was meant for me... is Amayra. My five-year-old cousin. But she’s not just my cousin. She’s my softness in a world that feels too loud. My calm in storms I encaged in my heart. And my safe place in a world that keeps haunting everyone. She is the breath between my sukoon and my sajda. “And He brought their hearts together. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have brought their hearts together; but Allah brought them together. Indeed, He is Exalted in Migh...