It Started with a Hijabi's Diary

About Author

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
" In the name of Allah , the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful."

May Peace and Blessings of Allah Almighty be upon our beloved prophets, their noble companions and all the true believers in this world or the other.
Ameen ❤️

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Asslamu'alaikum, how are you?
I was confused on if to do this part, thought many times about doing it, but then turned down the idea. Then I got so many lovely messages from all of you, asking about me. It's truly special, thank you so much for your love.

I am an anonymous writer, the reason I can't tell my original name or my personal information.
I live in Asia, but I am Not Indian, so many people have approached me by saying that I am an Indian, and it's not a bad thing, not at all. Just wanted to confirm that I am not.❤️

Umm.. About me, I love learning new languages, I LOVE it. I have a dream of declaring one day to know more than 30 languages, Insha'ALLAH.
English is not my first language, But I can tell you that it was my craze once. I know you must have found mistakes in this book, but that's mainly because of my laziness and busy schedule (being an anonymous writer doesn't help either) and I avoid from using too much difficult words because once I was a beginner too and I try as much as I can to not create a language barrier, even if it's little.
Learning Arabic has always been a dream of mine, and Allah Almighty granted it by making it a subject of mine, when I entered college with my major of Islamic Studies.

It's truly a blessing for me to learn Arabic from professionals and PhD teachers, and then learning all about Arabic culture, their history, their habits and all. Beleive me, it took so long especially in their history of kings and learning every war, it was not easy, but it's all worth it. Alhamdulillah.
It's worth it.

Arabic.... Maybe I can never describe how much I feel connected or how much I admire after reading the ayats in which Allah Almighty praised this language. Truly it's the only reason and it's enough for me to fall in love. Imagine, there are thousands of languages from eras to eras. But Allah Almighty chose Arabic for His Last Message, and our Beloved Prophet Hazrat Muhammad ﷺ, was an Arbi, too..

So yeah.. You can imagine. Sometimes I think and wished it so hard if I had been a born Arabic or if Arabic was my mother language, but then I knew that maybe I won't have got the opportunity as I do now to treasure this language as much or treasure the journey I had along this language. Because truly speaking, it's not an easy language, and I am still not perfect in it.
But Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen..

Alhamdulillah.

If anyone of you, is a native arabic speaker, and have tips for beginners or even for me to learn arabic easier, then it'd be my honor to learn from you.

Then, the next question I am asked often is, my age. I asked so many people what they guessed it to be, and few said above 25 or in the last twenties, or some even thirty. Then I am about to declare that I just turned twenty years old some months ago.
And when I wrote this novel, I was eighteen years old and finished it in my nineteenth.

So yeah, mosttt of this book is written in my eighteenth.

And then the next question, about how I am in real life? I am a very very shy person in real life, if you meet me in mix gathering, then there's few chances of me to have a long conversation with you, but if we are all girls.. Then I may even laugh loudly like a maniac with you, if your aura matchs with mine. Truly if the aura matchs, then it would be amazing.

If you see me in my college, then I am a good student, so as my teachers had told me, a very introvert person, but Alhamdulillah a respected being in my class. And I am a person with lots of questions, and a craze of books and finding new information.

According to my friends, my first love is library, because I feel like life is short and there's so much in this world to find out, truly every day brings a new experience or information to you, and it's amazing.

And from a person who has spent so much time in books, Beleive me the best information you need to find out is about You.
You as in not your name, your family history, about You.
I don't know how to explain it, but.. Find your best self being as humble and positive you can.
Be a friend to your own self, find what your strength is, focus on what's your most and least favorite priority, find out that what is that attracts you that most or what is it that you don't find pleasing. But Don't be Arrogant, Beleive me you are just a sand grain in a huge beach, every thing is in Allah Almighty's Hands, so don't you be arrogant.

But... Again be a friend to you. From experience, last year I faced a loot of war in my own self, and then I realized what was the benefit of having so much knowledge, if I don't have the knowledge of my own self. I am still working on it, and maybe always will find out new things about myself, because that's part of the journey. It's not only beneficial for you, but for your loved ones too, because Beleive me when I say that sometimes you feel a lot of war in you, and in the result you lash it out on others or don't know what it is that's hurting you, it feels like you need something but don't know what. So recognition of your own self helps a lot.

And sudden but please remember me and my family in your prayers, please. It would be a deed for you too. It's not like Astagfirullah I am in a very bad condition, Astagfirullah. He Has Blessed me A Looooottt, and I am happy, so much happy. It's just that I am working on my insecurities, and that's way more difficult than you can realize especially if it has become a childhood trauma.

And from experience, I am telling that it's too difficult, sometimes leading you to want to just give it up and let it be, because it becomes too painful, but then as you overcome you just realise that it was a bubble in which you had bind yourself in it, and the more you come out of it, the more you realize and find the good things in you. And the bestt help in it is, tawaqqul on Allah Almighty.

In His Help, and you'll literally see impossible miracles happening in front of you.

And thennnn, coming back to the topic, I had written this book in the very start of my second semester, because I felt like there's so much that people need to know about Islam. I tried to add it in the chapters of my book, and now Alhamdulillah I am a senior, and I have always wanted to share so much, but didn't know how to add it in the plot of the story, so I am now writing a complete separate book about Islamic lectures, conveying the message through short stories. Hope it helps, and it would be good deeds for both of us.

And then I am writing a new book, about a girl trapped in adventures. Truly speaking, I never imagined myself to write a book without romantic stuff, but there has been a voice in me telling me for so long now to write about a story of a girl, about everyone in the story finding about the secrets of life, and the world inside them. So yeah.. I hope you read it. It would mean a loot to me.
A loooottt.

Take care of yourself, and enjoy even the little things in life, and thank you for reading till now.
I can't describe how special it is to me.
Jazakumullahu khairun Katheera
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