About Me

Salaam! | Hey There!

I'm Abdullah —a medical student by day and a self-proclaimed writer by night. In creating this site, I intend to hold myself accountable for pursuing my interests outside of medicine and perhaps finding some overlap.

Admittedly, having an "About Me" page seems a little vain, but I've always believed that to truly understand someone's writing, it helps to know a little bit about the person behind the words.

This journey begins with my early experiences with memorizing the Quran, the sacred text of Islam. Around the world, there are millions of others who dedicate years of their lives to memorizing the Quran. For some, it comes naturally. For some like me, they struggle with it for a very long time. I was eight years old when I began memorization, and when I had made it just over half way through memorization, I planned to quit. I truly didn't believe I was capable of making it to the finish, but as it is said in Surah (Chapter) Al-Anfal, ۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيْرُ ٱلْمَـٰكِرِينَ (And Allah is (the) Best of the Planners). To this day, I am humbled and grounded by the realization that not only in this instance, but in much of my life thus far, His plans have always been much greater than mine.

About three years ago, I found myself sitting in front of a laptop trying to articulate why I chose to apply to medical schools. Truthfully, even as a third-year medical student, my answer to this question changes each time that I am asked. At times, I have a solid explanation, backed by anecdotes and evidence. At times, I simply believe that it was always written this way, that my being here right now was decided long before I made the plan to apply to medical school. Again, His plans have always marked the destination, and I wholeheartedly embark on the journey to those destinations.

I simply wanted to end this page by mentioning that this is the question that I ask myself every day, with every thought of the future that crosses my mind, and the question that I ask myself each time that I pick up pen and paper.