Adapted from my book God Intervenes Between A Person and Their Heart In our modern landscape of infinite scrolls and overnight deliveries, we are constantly haunted by the ghost of “more.” We chase the next level of comfort, the newer model, and the higher bracket, rarely pausing to ask why. We often sanitize the lives of the giants of faith, painting them in strokes of perfection that distance them from our own messy, material realities. Yet the history of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ upon him peace and blessings, reveals a deeply human moment in 7th-century Medina—a period of domestic tension Read More …
Tag: Quran
The Two Women of Midian: Lessons on Moral Clarity, and the Ethics of Speech
The women of Midian teach that haya’ is not silence or fragility, but a disciplined moral intelligence that protects one from harm. They stepped away from corruption, spoke only what was necessary, and trusted Allah to open the path. This is the spiritual intelligence missing from many modern conflicts, where modesty is performed outwardly while rivalry and insinuation thrive behind the scenes. The Qur’an honors restraint—not manipulation disguised as piety.
A Tied Heart: Lessons From Mother of Moses
There is a specific kind of paralyzing fear that takes hold when we are forced to let go of what we love most. Sometimes it is a relationship, a sense of safety, or plans we’ve built our identity around. Other times, it is something more subtle but equally gripping: the story others have constructed about us—a narrative we did not write, cannot control, and yet feel trapped inside. Releasing these attachments can feel like a kind of death, because a part of us believes our survival depends on holding them together. The story of the mother of Moses (upon him Read More …
Between egoism and conformity | who loves who, today?
“Love who you want, Hate who you want, do not oppress anyone.”
The ‘Aha’ Moment
He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: “We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:” and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.
(Quran 3:7)