Writings

Essays and articles.

“Stop Trying to Control Your Feelings” — An Islamic Critical Analysis

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.

28 August 2026 4 min read

Essay · Mind & Emotions

Guard Your Mind: Curate Your Consumption

An Islamic Guide for Muslims in an Age of War, Anxiety, and Information Overload

Written amid the Iran-Israel conflict, argues that a Muslim’s eyes, ears and heart are an amanah to be guarded: verify before sharing, confine news to set windows, judge sources by the muhadditheen’s standard, and turn grief into du’a, sadaqah and salah with khushu’. Such stewardship, it insists, is not apathy.

3 March 2026 11 min read