Uves Sareshwala

Themes

Istikhara

Also spelled istikhaarah.

His writing

Writing · Da'wah, Community & Institutions

Stick to Mashwara for Teamwork

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.

31 min read

Writing · Adversity & ResilienceFree

Lessons from the Fire

A Personal Account of Spiritual Collapse, Awakening, and the Slow Rebuilding of a Broken Emaan

A first-person account, written from inside a comprehensive crisis at sixty-two, of discovering that the author’s emaan was dangerously weak and beginning to rebuild it: presence in salah, muraqabah, istikhara before every significant interaction, informal conversation with Allah, holding to the fara’id, and dismantling bitterness, framed by the Takweeni-Tashree’i distinction.

25 min read