Also spelled feelings, emotional regulation.
Talk · Education & Parenting
A talk urging teachers to treat their work as building the Ummah, not merely a job, and to withstand pressures at work and home by strengthening heart and mind through daily Iman renewal, Zikr, Durood and Istighfar, with lessons from Salama ibn al-Akwa, Yusuf’s Taqwa, and Tawakkul as effort followed by contentment.
Writing · Adversity & Resilience
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.
Writing · Mind & Emotions
Critiques the popular advice to stop trying to control your feelings. Grants that it rightly lifted shame about emotion, but argues from hadith and the Qur’anic levels of the nafs that feelings must still be governed, and some, like hasad and kibr, treated: accept a feeling as information, never as authority.
Writing · Faith & Spirituality
Understanding Allah’s Takweeni & Tashree’i Nizaam — A Framework for Spiritual Resilience, Mental Strength, and Unwavering Faith in Times of Global Crisis
Explains the distinction between Allah’s Takweeni Nizaam (His decree over events) and Tashree’i Nizaam (what He commands), arguing that anxiety over the Ummah’s crises and end-times obsession come from confusing the two. It sets out the believer’s lane: disciplined grief, salah, dua, tawakkul after effort, refusing despair, constructive action, curated news and community.
