Mu'asharat — family life, siblings, in-laws, friendship, loyalty, and reading human behaviour.
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 · 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 · Understanding the Deen
When Muslims Are Taught How to Worship but Not How to Deal
Argues that much wrongdoing in Muslim homes and businesses reflects a Deen taught by halves: ʿIbādāt in detail, Muʿāmalāt, Muʿāsharat and Ḥuqūq al-ʿIbād rarely with equal seriousness. Invoking Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, it faults curriculum and pulpit, and offers sourced rulings on in-laws, inheritance and speech as a model for teaching.
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 · 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.
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.
