🌱 The Lived Journey

Welcome to The Lived Journey

Every life begins with a seed.

Not just the biological seed of our parents, but a divine seed — a spiritual blueprint planted by Allah long before we ever asked who we are.

That seed carries a sacred program: the emotional DNA, spiritual potential, and unresolved wounds passed down through our family line. It holds both the burdens we were born to transform and the gifts we were created to actualize. This is not theory. This is not abstract. This is reality — lived in the texture of our days.

When we begin to pay attention, we start to see how that seed unfolds in our daily life — in the patterns we repeat, the relationships we struggle with, the timings we dismiss, and even the shadows that seem to chase us. It shows up in the numbers that keep appearing, th
e verses that suddenly feel personal, the words we can’t forget.

This blog is a living journal of that process.

I write from my own life — the Qur’anic verses I’m reciting, the signs I’m tracking, the emotional mirrors I’m facing. I speak about what I see in society, in family dynamics, in generational wounds, and in the misalignments that cost us our center.

I speak about the narcissists I’ve dealt with, the inheritance of silence and suppression, and the Qur’anic verses that speak louder than any voice in the room. I don’t write from theory — I write from the unfolding. From lived truth.

Each post may begin with a verse I’ve recited or written that morning, a moment of tafsir study, or the dhikr that opened something in me. From that anchor, I reflect on what is rising:

• Emotional patterns surfacing and breaking

• The divine timing of numbers and names

• What is happening in the world and what it asks of us

• What we’re neglecting and what we’re being called to rise to

But it always returns to the root:
My Qur’an practice, my dhikr, my tafsir — the alignment I seek to rebuild each day. Some days I make it. Some days I don’t. I’ll share both. Because part of the lived journey is watching how things fall apart when we step out of sync — and witnessing how mercy invites us to realign again, not with shame, but with truth.

This blog isn’t about being perfect.

It’s about being awake.
Because what we ignore, we repeat.
And what we face, transforms.

I don’t offer advice.
I offer what’s real.

Welcome to the journey.

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This image is a symbolic representation of a hijabi woman — it is not me. I am Sister Spade.

In a world where social media often highlights glamour and perfection, I choose transparency over illusion. I show myself as I truly am: a woman shaped by struggle, forged through a lifetime of resilience against narcissism. Though beaten down by adversaries, I rise—with the Qur’an and the Ahlul Bayt (AS) as my guide—to reclaim my authenticity and strength. I am Palestine.

This space is not about physical appearance; it is about the lived journey and the strength behind it. But I believe in honesty, so if you wish to see me as I am — unfiltered, without makeup, and without pretense — you can find me here:

How Imam Mahdi (A) Will Rule His Global Government — Sister Spade (English)

Connect with me professionally on LinkedIn: Nasreen Syed

Explore my writings — over 20 blogs covering various topics from an Islamic perspective — here: Sadiq Evolution Blog