Also spelled sakīnah, iṭmiʾnān.
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 · Education & Parenting
Spiritual Resilience and the True Calling of a Teacher
Presents teaching as a sacred trust and the work of building the Ummah, not merely a career, and offers three daily practices (reviving Iman through La ilaha illallah, Zikr of the Third Kalima, Durood and Istighfar) to withstand classroom stress, alongside Taqwa and Tawakkul as utmost effort with the result left to Allah.
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 · 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.
Writing · Adversity & Resilience
When the trial has already arrived, what should we ask Allah for?
Argues that once a trial has arrived, asking Allah for ṣabr is not asking for affliction but may be one of the deepest ways of asking for ʿāfiyah. It reads the narration ‘you have asked Allah for affliction’ as addressed to the unafflicted, and distinguishes ʿāfiyah from the trial and ʿāfiyah within it.