Personal Narrative: My Faith Journey

Faith is inevitable; it’s the spirit of wisdom and the acknowledgment of a Higher Power. I am most thankful for being raised as a Muslim. Through my years of growing from a child, to a teenager, to a young adult, and now to a mother –I have come to realize the obligation of duty, the necessity of belief, and the requirement of love for embracing religion. As a child, I felt most estranged from my fellow classmates because my religion was not the same as theirs. It was the year I was starting fourth grade, and my parents had this brilliant idea to move our family from a diversely ethnic Chicago to an all-white school in the suburbs. Growing up in the city, children were very unaware of race, creed, religion; it was quite harmonious. The city was full of different kinds of people and nobody was ever out of place. There was a comfort that I had taken for granted and until this day—I still reminisce about playing with all my …show more content…
One of my favor quotes that I hold dear to me is from Rumi, in which there is so much certainty—nonetheless, I feel it’s this missing component of uniting all of humanity through the realization that we are all equal…. “On the path of Love, We are neither masters nor the owners of our lives, We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.” My inspiration and influence for being a better Muslim comes from following Dr. Omid Safi, he is the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center, and a columnist for On Being. I enjoy reading the beauty of his poetry, I’m mesmerized by the eloquence of his soft demeanor; I only hope to exhibit the same spectacular essence of humbleness that Professor Safi holds true—throughout his teachings and lectures, his focus is on the love needed to unite the collaboration of a better tomorrow for all of humanity, because we’re undeniably all living for an unknown mystical