Essays and articles.
Essay · 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.
Essay · 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.
Essay · 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.
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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.
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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.