The slow return

Returning to Allah — However Long You Have Been Away

There is no version of drifting that places you beyond return. The door does not close — that is not how His mercy works.

These are for the slow return: starting to pray again, coming back after years away, and honest company for the feelings that come with it — distance, emptiness, the fear of being a hypocrite.

Coming back

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The feelings on the way

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