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.
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.
Ninety-five lessons for Muslim entrepreneurs, moving from a Financial Times podcast on the Prophet ﷺ as trader to the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Argues that commerce under Tawhid keeps profit lawful but answerable to Allah, and that truthfulness, amanah and disclosure are the highest-return strategy, not a tax on profit.
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.
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.