Conflict of interest in our families, businesses and institutions, and the pretence that protects it
Argues that conflict of interest in family firms, trusts and committees becomes khiyanah when concealed, and that feigned ignorance of it is a second betrayal. Drawing on Surah Sad, al-Mutaffifin and the Sunnah, it answers common excuses, exposes private use of jointly earned goodwill, and prescribes disclosure, written records, recusal, audits and mediation.
What the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ teaches us about communication and commitment
Argues from the Seerah that words create expectations and expectations are an amanah. Points to the Prophet ﷺ confirming he was understood, Ka’b ibn Malik admitting he had no excuse, and the deposits he arranged to return on his last night in Makkah, and concludes: never disappear after creating an expectation.
When Muslims Are Taught How to Worship but Not How to Deal
Argues that much wrongdoing in Muslim homes and businesses reflects a Deen taught by halves: ʿIbādāt in detail, Muʿāmalāt, Muʿāsharat and Ḥuqūq al-ʿIbād rarely with equal seriousness. Invoking Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, it faults curriculum and pulpit, and offers sourced rulings on in-laws, inheritance and speech as a model for teaching.
Ninety-five lessons for Muslim entrepreneurs, moving from a Financial Times podcast on the Prophet ﷺ as trader to the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Argues that commerce under Tawhid keeps profit lawful but answerable to Allah, and that truthfulness, amanah and disclosure are the highest-return strategy, not a tax on profit.
A reflection on understanding, vulnerability, forgiveness, and boundaries — in the light of the Qur’an and Sunnah
A personal reflection on how a disposition to understand and forgive left the author repeatedly exposed to the same harms. Drawing on the Qur’an and Sunnah, it separates understanding from permission and forgiveness from restored access, pairing mercy with firāsah, ḥilm, tawakkul that follows responsibility, and graded boundaries.
Qur’an & Sunnah-Based Analytical Guidance on the Etiquettes of Consultation as Guided by Rasoolullah ﷺ
Argues that mashwara is a Divinely commanded act of collective ibadah, not a borrowed management technique, and grounds its etiquettes in Qur’an and Sunnah: spiritual preparation, who qualifies, the duties of the Amir and members, women’s counsel, confidentiality, no lobbying or postmortem, and wholehearted implementation with tawakkul.
A Need of the Hour — A Comprehensive Analytical Guidance for Students, Educators, Institutions & Community Leaders
Argues that the Ummah needs scholars who super-specialise in one sub-domain of Islamic knowledge, combining classical depth, a contemporary professional qualification and supervised practice, and uses India’s halaal investment collapses (IMA, Heera Gold) to show the cost of generalist Shariah certification. Proposes seminary reform, dual qualifications, centres of excellence and licensing.
An Islamic Guide for Muslims in an Age of War, Anxiety, and Information Overload
Written amid the Iran-Israel conflict, argues that a Muslim’s eyes, ears and heart are an amanah to be guarded: verify before sharing, confine news to set windows, judge sources by the muhadditheen’s standard, and turn grief into du’a, sadaqah and salah with khushu’. Such stewardship, it insists, is not apathy.