About the Author

I’ve chosen to remain anonymous and I hope the reasons are understandable.

The battles we fight within ourselves are meant to be private. Between us and Allah. We are encourged to not speak of these openly.

But this story insisted on being written.

It is not extraordinary. In fact, the lack of originality had me worried. It is an everyday story in every sense of the word, and if it wasn’t for the encouragement from my publisher, it probaby would’ve never seen the light of day (well, technically, it hasn’t yet).

Restless Nafs Syndrome was inspired by true events. Whose story isn’t? We write what we’ve lived, what we’ve imagined, and what we wish someone had told us when we were younger.

For years, I have lived among you, like so many women do.

Trying to be good.

Trying to be grateful.

Trying to make sense of a restlessness I couldn’t name.

No one ever told me about the tunnel. That at some point, every woman, every soul, must pass through one. A narrowing, a darkening, a period where everything you thought you knew gets undone.

I wasn’t prepared.

But life has a way of teaching what no one else will.

This book is my offering. To teach what I wish I had been taught.

With loads of love

Laylah