Living on a student budget isn’t easy. Living in New York City, on a student budget is even harder. Especially when on every street corner there are ways to indulge on food, or spend in the name of the latest trends. Initially, I fell for all these marketing tricks: buying pizza around the block, or […]

“But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not”( 2:216). Let us not cloud our minds with the convention of love For our time has paralleled such beauty with lust Convinced that the […]

As the sunrise made its way through the cracks of my curtains, the first thing I laid my hands on was my iPhone. Continue reading