Also spelled muhasaba, self-audit.
Book · Understanding the Deen
Tafaqquh fid-Deen and the divine demand of the present hour
Argues that the ummah lacks not religious information but tafaqquh fid-deen: the faculty to recognise, fulfil and convey what Allah requires of a believer now. Drawing on the Qur’an, sahih Sunnah and Ibn al-Qayyim, it tests the principle on repeated nafl Hajj and Umrah and fences it with three safeguards.
Writing · Business, Wealth & Ethics
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.
Writing · Family & Relationships
What Years of Unconventional Interpersonal Experiments Taught Me About People, Mentoring — and Myself
A first-person account of years spent deliberately engaging people across classes, countries and degrees of closeness to understand them and himself. Argues that Allah educated the prophets and companions through exposure to every temperament, that the practice teaches understanding without agreeing, and that its skills equip a manipulator unless guarded by niyyah and dua.
Writing · Da'wah, Community & Institutions
Why Four Months in Jamaat Develops Competencies That Two Years of MBA Cannot Replicate
Argues that four months in Tabligh Jamaat develops emotional intelligence and management skills more deeply than a two-year MBA, because it works on the real person under unscripted conditions and with a spiritual anchor. Contends that critics of declining quality confuse a falling percentage with the absolute number of lives transformed.
Writing · Adversity & ResilienceFree
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.
Writing · Faith & Spirituality
The Invisible Axis of All Worship — A Complete Analysis of the Most Critical Dimension of Imaan: the Prophetic Method, the Sahaba’s Practice, and the Path of the Salaf
Explains ikhlaas as the invisible condition of the heart on which the acceptance of every deed depends, drawing on the Sahaba and the Salaf. Maps its contaminants (riyaa, sum’ah, ’ujb, hubb al-jah and hasad) and sets out Prophetic remedies and a daily framework, urging vigilance without abandoning good deeds out of fear.
Writing · Faith & Spirituality
The Mukhliseen Are the Lamps of Guidance
Continues the series on ikhlas through two narrations describing the Mukhliseen as Masabeeh al-Huda, lamps of guidance, and the hidden ones Allah loves. Argues that hiddenness is the credential of sincerity, that the Ummah’s survival is owed to such unseen people, and offers practical steps and a du’a for becoming one.