07/03/2022
Salaams ! So many new faces here so let me take a minute to introduce myself.
👋🏼My name is Tara Khan, and I wish I had a 3 second elevator pitch to tell you who I am. But 4 decades later i'm still not sure 😂 ! What I can tell you is that I'm a restless soul that is always in search for answers to questions that most people never seem to be fully convinced about to begin with.
Thus this quote up there has become my guiding force and life mantra so to speak while I try to do the best I can while trusting Him and letting the divine plan take over !
The one thing I do know with absolute certainty is that I am happiest when I am backpacking solo off the beaten path through unknown towns tucked away behind desolate deserts or under encompassing mountain ranges. Some sort of inner peace conversing with tribes who's language you do not understand but the lines on their forehead give away most of their life stories. Sharing a cup of tea with these nomads and watching that invisible social and cultural divide between you evaporate is one of life's most humbling and gratifying experiences. This makes me believe there is a free spirited nomad hiding inside me there somewhere - someone who can live on bread and water, sleep on borrowed rooftops, and wear the same pair of trousers 4 days a week ! Let's not talk about showers, yet !
On paper however, I'm a well cultured, well read, well travelled muslim girl with a beautiful family, armed with 3 masters degrees, corporate america experience and the business acumen of a shark. I have all the blessings one would want on their wish list Alhumdulillah.
But let's not confuse gratitude with longing. You can be grateful but still have a heart that yearns. Good Luck figuring out for what 😂 ! I think Maslow called it self actualisation. The desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
Imaan Explorers was born to satisfy my burning desire to create something that reeked of both passion and purpose & contributed to the muslim economy while building my jannah worthy legacy. I really hope you'll support me.
➡️Swipe right to see the nomad me.
Your turn, spill !
