I have been going to Hikma academy since it started and I have never felt so content before on a Sunday morning. Usually on a Sunday morning am either thinking about school the next day or doing chores at home. Hikma gives me chance to be myself. Express myself the way I want to without being provoked. But most importantly I love the knowledge that soaks into my brain when am there, I feel this massive weight being lifted away from my shoulders and being replaced with peace and integrity. I pick these two words because it basically summarizes my whole stay at Hikma. Integrity because growing up as a kid I didn’t know who I was, what I stand for, what’s my pride, who to trust who not to trust, what to do in difficult situations and so on. But now I know what my strong morals are and now I can live off of it .And peace because when am there I feel disconnected from this dunia. Disconnected from the drama at school, homework, chores you name it. Instead my spirit is at rest, now I don’t know if it’s because of me connecting with my lord or if it’s because I feel the presence of the angels around us, but I know for a fact that I feel tranquil from head to toe. Mash Allah I have learned many things from there not only the tafseer in the Quran but how to live in the west as a young African American teenager. I can’t say this enough but I really enjoy her class she has a way of explaining things that make so much sense, not just some stuff she looked up from Wikipedia she actually spends all of her free time going to halaka’s and doing whole lot of researches just so that we can understand and benefit from it. So I end up leaving the center with a little knowledge every Sunday
