'Afiyah (well-being)

Also spelled ʿāfiyah, aafiyah.

His writing

The Myth of Fearlessness

Why Fear Is Natural, Why Fearlessness Is Not Necessarily a Virtue, and Why Courage Is Something Far Greater

Argues that fearlessness carries no automatic virtue: courage means feeling fear, weighing consequences, taking precautions and still acting on examined conviction. Drawing on Musa’s “Indeed, we fear”, the Companions at the Trench, the Seerah and psychology, it presents tawakkul as surrendering the outcome and sakīnah as calm earned through struggle.

18 September 2026 21 min read

Writing · Adversity & Resilience

ʿĀfiyah in the Middle of the Storm

When the trial has already arrived, what should we ask Allah for?

Argues that once a trial has arrived, asking Allah for ṣabr is not asking for affliction but may be one of the deepest ways of asking for ʿāfiyah. It reads the narration ‘you have asked Allah for affliction’ as addressed to the unafflicted, and distinguishes ʿāfiyah from the trial and ʿāfiyah within it.

18 September 2026 24 min read