folio 06 / Personal

A life beyond the lab.

Research is only one form of attention. This is a small corner for words, books, walks, and the details that make a day feel fully inhabited.

Iqbal

Verses I return to.

Phool

صنوبر باغ میں آزاد بھی ہے، پا بہ گل بھی ہےانہی پابندیوں میں حاصل آزادی کو تو کر لے

Sanobar bagh mein azad bhi hai, pa-ba-gil bhi haiInhi pabandiyon mein hasil-e-azadi ko tu kar le

A favourite couplet · Bang-e-Dra ↗

Aik Arzoo ایک آرزو

دنیا کی محفلوں سے اکتا گیا ہوں یا ربکیا لطف انجمن کا جب دل ہی بجھ گیا ہو

Dunya ki mehfilon se ukta gaya hun ya RabKya lutf anjuman ka jab dil hi bujh gaya ho

My absolute favourite poem · Bang-e-Dra ↗

A reminder that freedom is not always the absence of constraint; sometimes it is something we learn to find within it.

Reading

Books on my shelf.

01

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

02

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

03

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

04

Reflecting on the Names of Allah

Jinan Yousef

05

Mushaf

The Qur'an

06

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Writing

From Peace.

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2019

Of Hajar and her submission.

A reflection on reliance, movement, and the quiet courage carried in submission.

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2016

Justice

A personal meditation on responsibility, moral clarity, and the weight of fairness.

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2015

Abdallah - the free soul

A piece about freedom, faith, and the release that comes with a deeper belonging.

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Photography

Things worth noticing.

Landscapes, light, and fragments from ordinary days. A gallery will grow here slowly.

awaiting light

Small rituals

01

Reading

Returning to books that make the world feel a little wider.

02

Photography

Learning to pay attention to light, place, and ordinary detail.

03

Taking a walk

Making room for stillness, movement, and the clarity that comes between destinations.