The mind is like a house.

Perhaps you start by inhabiting a single room, and are quite at ease, in what you think is home. But unbeknown to you, you are cocooned within an array of rooms, undiscovered places, that surround you. They wait to be burst open with their own tastes, colours and perspectives.

The more you read, the more you open up doors, passageways, corridors to an undiscovered room and expand the house that you call your mind. You expand it, enrich it and transform it into a place that becomes the only exquisitely intricate place, that has the power to change the very essence of who you are.”

Shohana Khan on what it means to #bewellread.

Shohana Khan is a London-based freelance writer, largely on issues related to women in contemporary society and Muslims living in the West. Shohana blogs for The Huffington Post and has also been published in Media Diversified, 5Pillars, and others. She shares her personal musings on life as a homeschooler in The Homeschool Diaries.

Thank You, Shohana Khan, for sharing your perspective on what it means to #bewellread. This forms part of our campaign to call people back to the first Qur’anic command to mankind which was ‘Read’. #callto1stverse