sisterhood

Most people who met Sister Shahidah at the masjid assumed she had always been calm.

They saw the black niqab, the modest jilbab, the quiet way she sat with her tea after Isha prayer. They saw patience in her stillness and assumed it had always been there.

Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “There is no kindness in a thing but it adds beauty to it, and there is no absence of kindness but it disfigures a thing.” (Muslim)