Also spelled connection, friends.
Writing · Adversity & Resilience
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.
Writing · Faith & Spirituality
Network vis-à-vis the Network of Allah; Connection vis-à-vis the Connection with Allah
Contrasts worldly networking, which often fades when prolonged adversity makes a person less relevant, with the connection with Allah, which needs no appointment and can grow stronger through difficulty. Urges readers to build it during ease through ṣalāh, Qur’an, duʿā, dhikr, tafakkur and Sunnah, treating people as means and Allah as the Source.
Reflection · Faith & Spirituality
A short invitation to the full essay. Notes that prolonged difficulty thins a person’s network, since some people were connected only to his relevance, and turns to the network with Allah: the one Connection in which no one becomes irrelevant, built through the Qur’an, tafakkur, the Sunnah and daily prayer.
Page · Personal Growth
Life Taught Me What Books Alone Could Not
An autobiographical page on how a life of privilege and business success gave way to collapse and uncertainty, and how that adversity became an education of the heart. It describes his mentoring, which asks less how to succeed than how to respond with faith and dignity, and what Allah requires in each situation.
Writing · Adversity & ResilienceFree
The Positive Discovery Hidden in Adversity
Argues that adversity’s greater discovery is not who left but whom Allah sends: unexpected supporters who are a form of rizq and temporary bridges while His decree unfolds. Urges readers to correct negativity bias, thank these helpers and recognise Allah behind them; ends with a tribute to those who stood like rocks.
Reflection · Adversity & Resilience
A fifteen-point summary of The People Allah Sends: in adversity the greater story is not who left but the unexpected people Allah sends as human rizq and temporary bridges of mercy. It urges correcting the negativity bias, answering resentment with gratitude and valuing depth over duration, while holding that ultimate help belongs to Allah.
Visual summary · Adversity & Resilience
A fourteen-slide visual version of The People Allah Sends. Argues that adversity reveals not only who left but who arrived, that such people are rizq, His unexpected provisions rather than the Source, and that asking ‘Whom has Allah sent?’ instead of ‘Who abandoned me?’ turns resentment into gratitude.
Visual summary · Adversity & Resilience
An illustrated one-page summary of The People Allah Sends. It contrasts resentment over those who leave after a fall from height with gratitude for the supporters Allah sends, and presents people as rizq, supporters as a temporary bridge, depth over duration, and the ‘Door Z’ principle of unexpected doors.
Writing · Family & Relationships
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.
