About

Nafsee is…… 

Lisa Hashem.  A Muslimah.  Dedicated wife.  Full-time Electrical Engineer.  Daughter.  Sister.  Struggling to surrender.  Introvert.  Trying to survive in this big world with the blessings of the hereafter as my destination.  An aspiring writer.  Amatullah.

The Arabic word ’nafsee’ means ‘my soul’.   Beautiful word. 

Below are some examples of this word:

 

يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ أَصْلِحْ لِي شَأْنِي كُلَّهُ وَلَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ”. 

 

 

Yaa Hayyu yaa Qayyoomu birahmatika ‘astagheethu ‘aslih lee sha’nee kullahu wa laa takilnee ‘ilaa nafsee tarfata ‘aynin.

O Ever Living One, O Eternal One, by Your mercy I call on You to set right all my affairs. Do not place me in charge of my soul even for the blinking of an eye

 

‘If one of you rises from his bed and then returns to it he should dust it with the edge of his garment three times for he does not know what has occurred in his absence and when he lies down he should supplicate:

Bismika Rabbi wadha’tu janbe, wa bika arfa’uhu, fa’in amsakta nafsee farhamhaa, wa in arsaltahaa fahfadhhaa, bimaa tahfadhu bihi ‘ibaa-dakas-saaliheen.

‘In Your name my Lord, I lie down and I in Your name I rise, so if You should take my soul then have mercy upon it, and if You should return my soul then protect it in the manner You do so with Your righteous servants.’