Argues that prolonged adversity after prosperity reveals more than friend and enemy: withdrawals have many causes, sympathy can mask opportunism, help can become control, and pain distorts the observer. Drawing on the Qur’an and Sira, it counsels observing without judging souls, thanking those who stayed, and accepting that people are never fully understood.
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.
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.