by heart

By Heart started in those rare quiet moments I had to steal for myself.

Between being a mom, wife, and trying to keep up with my career, my life feels like it’s constantly moving at warp speed. Even when I pray, it’s usually rushed — squeezed into whatever few minutes I can find in a day that belongs to everyone except me. But through all the chaos of diapers and deadlines, something kept tugging at me: the Qur’an.

Not just reading it or memorizing its verses. I wanted to really feel it. To let it become part of me. To find my center when everything else is spinning.

That’s how By Heart came to be. It started as my own way of getting back to Allah when life felt overwhelming. A way to create space for actually being present instead of just going through the motions.

This is for women who get it. Women who love Allah with everything they have but feel pulled in a thousand directions. Who want to memorize the Qur’an not just because they should, but because they crave that connection. Who are looking for something meaningful in those little pockets of time between taking care of everyone and everything else.

Here, you’ll find the thoughts and reflections that got me through tough days, reminded me to take a breath, or just helped me find the strength to start over tomorrow. Sometimes that’s through the Qur’an. Other times it’s through the pages of a book that gives me language for things I’ve always felt but never named. I share reviews and reflections on those books too, because words, whether divine or human, have a way of shaping us when we let them in.

By Heart is about coming back to what matters. About remembering who you are beneath all the roles you play. It’s an invitation to let the Qur’an, and the books and ideas that inspire us, meet you exactly where you are and transform you from the inside out.