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".. admonish them & speak to them a far-reaching word." (Al-Quran) Read & reflect. Repair, then share.
We seek refuge in You, O Allah, from the devils of humans and Jinn, guide us to their plotting, and inspire us with the clarity and strength to push back against Shaytan and his allies.
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My advice to charities and donors
The cries of the poor are an unavoidable sound in our lives today. Whether caused by natural disasters, wars, or economic systems that forever widens the gap between the rich and poor, it’s impossible to ignore. With images of poverty flooding our screens multiple times a day, charity appeals are relentless, and organisations are multiplying fast, but with that comes confusion, and even exploitation. How should we engage with this new reality?
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📹 https://youtu.be/IblOFB0M-js
Father, I'm sorry..
“The father is the middle gate of Paradise, so if you wish, neglect that gate or protect it.” (Prophet Muhammad PBUH)
Yet in many modern societies, this central gate to Paradise has been pushed from the heart of the home to its margins. Reduced to “helper”, treated as a “back-up,” a “nice addition,” or even an optional guest in their own children’s lives. This is how countless fathers describe their reality today.
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📹 https://youtu.be/iZRCBA1grxs
Last night in Gaza?
She wrote:
"One of the most terrifying nights we’ve lived through since this war began…
Screams all night long.
Walls collapsing onto the heads of people in the tents.
Buildings coming down with everyone still inside.
Babies flung into the air.
Shelling after shelling — strikes and bombardment.
I swear, we couldn’t tell thunder from the sound of the bombing.
The cold was brutal. When we got up for Fajr, we were numb.
Skin and lips turning blue.
Bones and joints stiff with cold.
More than once, our hearts tried to stop — but Allah willed to breathe life into them again.
Who was safe in Gaza last night?
Only the people in the graves."
Banan Abdullah
Five Hadith That Explain the World We’re Living In
A tour of five prophetic narrations that describe our times. This is part of a long-standing scholarly approach; connecting revelation to people's every day reality. For each narration, one clear practical priority is extracted, to help parents and educators respond to theory with action.
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📹 https://youtu.be/Ungxc-I9Uuk
Deliberately stoking sectarian disputes, being keen to highlight points of disagreement rather than areas of shared ground, and pushing the scholars’ criticisms of one another out to the general public is only done by a person of little religion, devoid of murū’ah (manly dignity/chivalry), and of poor roots and character.
Tāj al-Subkī (رحمه الله) said in Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā (2/278):
“It is fitting for you, O seeker of guidance, to tread the path of proper etiquette with the imams of the past; and not to look into what some of them said about others, except when it comes with clear proof. Then if you are able to interpret it in a good way and to think well (of them), then do so; otherwise, turn away from what occurred between them—for you were not created for this.”
“So busy yourself with what concerns you, and leave what does not concern you. In my view, the student of knowledge remains noble until he plunges into what occurred among the righteous predecessors of the past, and begins judging in favor of some of them against others.”
“So beware—then beware—of lending an ear to what happened between Abū Ḥanīfah and Sufyān al-Thawrī, or between Mālik and Ibn Abī Dhiʾb, or between Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ and al-Nasāʾī, or between Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal and al-Ḥārith al-Muḥāsibī—and so on, all the way to the time of Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Salām and Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ. For if you busy yourself with this, I fear destruction for you.”
“These people are imams—great luminaries. Their statements have possible interpretations, some of which may not be understood. So nothing is upon us except to ask Allah’s pleasure for them and to remain silent about what occurred between them—just as one does regarding what occurred among the Companions (رضي الله عنهم).”
All the more so today! While the Ummah faces existential assault, genocide, and coordinated hostility, surely you can see how our “refutations” and cancellations online, on campuses, or in Mosques have become another front where we bleed ourselves.
Only a few days stand between us and Ramaḍān, so start from now:
Train your body with a few units of prayer in the stillness of the night, so that when Ramadan arrives, your limbs are fully accustomed to the posture of night Salah.
Train your stomach with some days of fasting during these short winter days, so your soul doesn’t panic on the first day of fasting, suffocated by cravings it was never taught to release.
Train your tongue for more Qur’an so that when the month of Qur’an arrives, you’re fully fluent in its language.
Train your eyes to lower the gaze and let go of needless curiosity, instead of assuming an automatic “off switch” will somehow appear on the first night of Ramaḍān.
Train your heart to love solitude, the quiet corner, the closed door, the escape from notifications and noise, until you finally hear yourself and what it has been asking from you all along.
Do this now, and do it intentionally, so that when the blessed month arrives you don’t greet it like a stranger, but welcome it like a beloved guest you’ve genuinely been longing for.
But naturally, the soul is stubborn and doesn’t transform on command. But it is willing to hear you out and loosen habits if given an opportunity to adjust into better ones
Otherwise, you will do what so many do every year: Start Ramaḍān in a sprint, and then lose your breath halfway.
اللهم بلغنا رمضان
O Allah, let us reach Ramaḍān.
As torrential rain pours over Gaza, flooding the fragile tents of its families, drenching their clothes and bedding, and leaving children dying in the cold, how blessed is the one whom Allah chooses to be a refuge for them.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
أيما مؤمن أطعم مؤمنًا على جوع أطعمه الله يوم القيامة من ثمار الجنة، وأيما مؤمن سقى مؤمنًا على ظمأ سقاه الله يوم القيامة من الرحيق المختوم، وأيما مؤمن كسا مؤمنًا على عري كساه الله من خضر الجنة
“Whoever feeds a hungry believer, Allah will feed him from the fruits of Paradise on the Day of Judgment. Whoever quenches a thirsty believer, Allah will quench his thirst with sealed nectar. And whoever clothes a believer who is without clothes, Allah will clothe him from the green garments of Paradise.” (Ahmad)
If Allah grants you any means—big or small—of providing rain-proof shelter for these families, then may you be among the blessed recipients of this promise.
Children lying on the wet ground, in wet clothes, on a thin and wet blanket, covered with wet plastic bags to cover their thin and wet bodies from the heavy rain that's flooding Gaza around the clock.
Yes, this is an image of betrayal. An image of Ummatic neglect. An image that would never have been possible had people of power not chosen to look away.
But look again;
It is also the image of leaders in the making.
وَنُرِيدُ أَن نَّمُنَّ عَلَى الَّذِينَ اسْتُضْعِفُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَنَجْعَلَهُمْ أَئِمَّةً وَنَجْعَلَهُمُ الْوَارِثِينَ * وَنُمَكِّنَ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ
“And We willed to favour those who were oppressed in the land, to make them leaders and to make them inheritors, and to establish them firmly upon the earth.”
(Al-Qur'an 28:5–6)
Victims today.
Inheritors tomorrow, insha'Allah.
Abū Hurayrah said:
إذا مات ابن آدم، قال الناس: (ما خلّف؟)، وقالت الملائكة: (ما قدّم؟)
“When a person dies, the people say: ‘What did he leave behind?’ But the angels say: ‘What did he send ahead?’”
One question belongs to dunya, the other belongs to the ākhirah, and the believer lives answering the second.
Part of today’s collapse of murū’ah (chivalrous dignity) is the indifference of some to the wounds of the Ummah. The same hands that scroll past images of slaughter, oppression, and utter hypocrisy with a deadened heart will type furiously for petty arguments, online drama, niche theological debates, and personal ego. A person of murū’ah feels responsible for more than their own brand or tiny circle; they feel the weight of their Ummah’s pain, even if all they can offer is duʿā’, a word of truth, or a refusal to normalise the oppressor.
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"The more savage a coloniser becomes, the closer he is to his own collapse." A statement made by Ilan Pappe, al-Masiri, and other historians.
This is a pattern in history we can’t afford to ignore. When an occupying power exhausts its ability to justify itself, it turns to violence. Extreme, unfiltered violence.
When regimes have nothing left to offer but cruelty, when they begin to kill without hesitation and legislate murder in daylight, they are no longer advancing a project. They are losing control of it.
The recent push in the Israeli Knesset to legalise the execution of Palestinian prisoners is anything but a sign of strength. It’s the clearest evidence of moral exhaustion and utter desperation.
But here’s the catch; barbarism cannot sustain an empire forever, because – according to the historians above - brute force is the final card of a dying empire.
About this civilisational moment, Allah says:
فَلَمَّا نَسُوا۟ مَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِهِۦ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَبْوَٰبَ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا فَرِحُوا۟ بِمَآ أُوتُوٓا۟ أَخَذْنَـٰهُم بَغْتَةًۭ فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْلِسُونَ
"When they became oblivious to warnings, We showered them with everything they desired. But just as they became prideful of what they were given, We seized them by surprise, then they instantly fell into despair!” (Al-Qur’an 6:44)
Such moments are agonising, and may feel endless, but make no mistake: when cruelty becomes the name of the game, then the ink has touched the page, and the final chapters are being written
"Praying for Armageddon"?
Ep. 6 - Your Guide to the Blessed Land
https://youtu.be/sS_h0xusYYk
The Road to Jerusalem | Ep.5 | Your Guide to the Blessed Land
📹 https://youtu.be/6O0uj9m7jvA
Our Ummah's Health-Check? Al-Sham | Ep.4 | Your Guide to the Blessed Land
https://youtu.be/fJPRUK5rYIM
Epstein, Shayṭān and Gaza
For so long, we have spoken about Shayṭān (Satan) as theory, as though he’s a metaphor, like a poetic label for “bad vibes,” without treating him as a real operating force in practice. Of course, we believe in his existence but fail to see how much of what we complain about—governments, media, lobby groups, or their likes—are but tools in Shayṭān’s hands, and allies of the Dajjāl’s greater cause.
Yet, the Qur’an offers a completely different framing, telling us that Iblīs (the chief Shayṭān) is a distinct creature with a name, nickname, children, a physical form, strategy, memory, human and Jinnī allies, troops, traps, banners, and a long war to ruin mankind. It tells us that his role isn’t confined to whispers in prayer or nagging thoughts, but has key influence on governments, societies, economics, politics, military affairs, cultures, and trends.
Read how Allah says: أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا الشَّيَاطِينَ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ تَؤُزُّهُمْ أَزًّا
“Do you not see that We send the devils upon the disbelievers, inciting them with constant incitement?” (Al-Qur’an 19:83)
And Iblīs himself declared his project: لَأَحْتَنِكَنَّ ذُرِّيَّتَهُ
“I will surely seize control of his descendants…” (Al-Qur’an 17:62)
The point is not to obsess over him, but to stop underestimating him and to actively notice his marks on the world around us. Some of the ugliest features of modern life must be read as the fingerprints of this ancient enemy: the organised destruction of family, systematic breakdown of religion, the normalizing of pornography, the altering of God’s creation, the centralizing of entertainment and distraction, and trapping people in cycles of desire and despair.
The Sīrah mentions how Shayṭān was physically present in Quraysh’s meeting as they discussed what to do with the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He actively participated in the discussion in human form, offering suggestions that raised the ceiling of brutality beyond what disbelievers and idolaters might have imagined on their own. So yes, in person, Shayṭān is present amid lobby groups, private parties, secret meetings, forums, and fundraisers. When someone describes today as “the civilization of the devil”, they’re not being dramatic at all.
The newly released “Epstein files” are nothing but one manifestation of this Shayṭān–Dajjāl–human alliance. Not in the childish sense of blaming the devil to excuse criminals, no, Islam never lets a sinner outsource responsibility. But in the Qur’anic sense, yes: it bears all the fingerprints of Shayṭān himself; the weaponization of lust, the promotion of perversion, the monetization of bodies, the normalization of the abnormal, the politics of blackmail and domination—and then laughs as people argue about “freedom” and “liberty” while quietly tightening his chains around them.
The men and women of Gaza are standing against this Satanic alliance and continue to demonstrate their willingness to pay the price for doing so today, for Paradise tomorrow. Their struggle against the invader’s killing machine does not cancel out the unseen demonic dimension of their plight. In fact, its signs are written all over it and, with every scandal, every file released, are clearer today than ever before.
With the above said, this is precisely why the scholars of Islam never wrote about Shayṭān as a character outside history, but as a living metaphysical creature, present from the moment you wake up to the moment you sleep. In fact, even in your sleep, he stalks, utilizing every possible moment of vulnerability to harm you.
Since his war is staged and intelligent, our response, as Muslims, must match that energy. This begins by learning his entrances, because when you can name the tactic, you can break it, and when you do that, you can confidently recite:
إِنَّ كَيْدَ الشَّيْطَانِ كَانَ ضَعِيفًا
“Indeed, the plotting of Shayṭān is ever weak.” (Al-Qur’an 4:76)
"Trump’s worst un-American impulses and intellectual laziness were contained in his first term in the White House by a group of serious advisers. This time around, there is no one to contain them. He has surrounded himself with sycophants. So, Trump is now basically running our country the way he ran his companies — as a one-man show free to make terrible deals.
That management style led to six bankruptcy filings by his companies. Unfortunately, today we’re all his shareholders, and I fear he is going to bankrupt us as a nation — morally for sure, if not one day financially and politically."
Thomas Friedman
https://archive.vn/kWyK2#selection-721.0-741.181
Painful. Scathing.
Necessary. Healing.
https://www.islam21c.com/opinion/on-the-harms-of-muslim-influencers/
If you were a troublemaker as a child, or your child is, then take heart!
Imām Najm al-Dīn Kubrā (died 618 AH) was famously mischievous when he was young. He used to challenge his teachers and stir up chaos in school to the point that people said he didn’t leave a single prank his classmates could think of except that he tried it on his own teachers. The teachers even nicknamed him “al-Ṭāmmah al-Kubrā” (“the Great Catastrophe”) because of how many problems he caused.
Then, with time, the “catastrophe” part dropped—and he became known as Najm al-Dīn Kubrā, or the Great Star of the religion. He went on to become a major scholar of Sunnah: a great ḥadīth scholar, a Qur’an exegete, and someone who reached remarkable heights in worship, asceticism, and spiritual refinement.
Al-Dhahabī said of him:
"كان صاحب حديث وسنة، ملجأ للغرباء، عظيم الجاه، لا يخاف في الله لومة لائم"
“He was a person of ḥadīth and Sunnah; a refuge for strangers; of great standing; and he did not fear blame from anyone when it came to Allah.”
He was martyred while fighting against the Mongols.
May Allah have mercy on him and on our children!
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“But Lūṭ is in it…”
A short sentence in Sūrat al-ʿAnkabūt that opens a whole world about what it means for people of daʿwah to belong to one another, especially when times get dark and the pressure intensifies.
When the angels came to Ibrāhīm ﷺ with news that punishment was about to fall upon the people of Lūṭ, his immediate response was: إِنَّ فِيهَا لُوطًا "But Lūṭ is in it.” (Qur’an 29:32)
At first glance, his words may seem strange. The angels already know Lūṭ is there, and Ibrāhīm knows that they know. So why say it? But that’s the point; it was a reflex from a heart that cannot hear of calamity without immediately thinking of a believer, a fellow caller to Allah, who might be caught in it, as if he was saying: “Whatever happens, don’t lose sight of him, don’t forget him, protect him.”
Yes, Ibrāhīm and Lūṭ were family, but above that, they were two men carrying the same enormous burden: delivering Allah’s message to humanity, and producing a type of brotherhood that doesn’t calculate politics nor does it keep score.
And here we are today, with our conferences, brands, platforms and “manhaj” debates, and the hard question hangs in the air: Do speakers, scholars, institutes and activists really care for one another like that, particularly during their hour of need? Or has jealousy quietly displaced sincerity? Have “manhaj” disputes shattered brotherhood? Have competition, branding, and “market-share” battles taken the place of loyalty and love? Be honest; do we reflect the maturity and tenderness of the Abrahamic way?
Sometimes a scholar or daʿiyah is being crushed, openly targeted, exhausted, banned from travel, isolated, dealing with real life trials, and yet the people closest to his “lane” don’t even notice, or worse, choose not to notice, or even worse, enjoy the spectacle of his pain! Such a person, group or organization couldn’t be further away from the Abrahamic way, even if they crown themselves with the loudest titles of “Sunnah” and “orthodoxy.”
Allah tells us to follow the way of Ibrāhīm, and this Ibrāhīmī gesture is part of it: protecting the people of the same cause, and staying in touch with them.
Just because someone moved on from your organization, your masjid, your charity, your project, doesn’t mean they moved out of the family. No, they are not “former colleagues” or have “taken a separate path”. They are your siblings in daʿwah, deserving of your thought and frequent communication. You don’t sever ties because the institute, platform or logo changed.
Stay in contact. Ask about one another. Carry each other’s loads. Be elder brothers to each other. Don’t let Shayṭān isolate any one of us behind our personal/organizational goals, targets and immediate circle. Especially today, achieving this is not a luxury but an urgent necessity in light of the relentless assault on all those working for Islam. We cannot afford this internal coldness and distance.
Speakers are many, study circles are endless—alḥamdulillāh—and we are not short of Islamic events. But the moment you pause your busy schedule and reach out, the moment you check in to protect a Muslim who is carrying the same burden, that is when you step onto the path of:
إِنَّ فِيهَا لُوطًا
“But Lūṭ is in it!”
[Adapted from the writing of Dr N. Nahar]
2 million Muslims in Gaza in apocalyptic conditions, freezing and drowning to death.
2 billion Muslims around them asking Allah for Paradise.
They're drowning in front of us.
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل
In light of the White House’s insults at the Somali community, telling them to “go back to their country,” calling them “garbage”, with a row of suited officials nodding along in approval, one can’t help but remember:
قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ
“Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their hearts conceal is greater.” (Qur’an 3:118)
When such poverty of character, moral illiteracy and major insecurity is squared against a community of immense loyalty, unbreakable families, ferocious generosity, and above all, our siblings in faith, the contrast is almost painful to watch.
Time will tell who history will dispose of as “garbage” and who it will crown with honour.
Until then, the Qur’an has already delivered its verdict:
إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ
“Indeed, your hater—he is the one cut off.” (Qur’an 108:3)
The land of Judgement Day will be one not stained by any sin. It has never known injustice. It carries no memory of bloodshed, pride or oppression. Not one lie was ever told upon it. It never hosted a tyrant. It never sounded with the cries of the oppressed. Never felt the footsteps of the arrogant. No trench was dug here. No genocide was committed here. No idol was worshipped here. On that land, Allah has never been disobeyed.
Allah will roll up this earth, like a scroll being sealed, and bring forth an entirely new land.
The Prophet PBUH said:
يحشر الناس يوم القيامة على أرض بيضاء عفراء، كقرصة نقي.
"People will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment upon a white, barren land like a pure white loaf of bread flattened dough." (Al-Bukhari)
The pure and white landscape of Judgment Day means that justice carries over entirely. It is a land that has had its memory reset, its history erased.
But your history will not.
That’s why the truly blessed one is the one who rises on that Day with a record as pure as the ground beneath his feet.
Alhamdulillah in the beginning and in the end.
The series we started two months ago, titled "Your Guide to the Blessed Land" is complete.
👇🏼 The final episode
In Preparation For The Coming Days | Ep. 8 | Your Guide to the Blessed Land
https://youtu.be/wvrF9qQqJ4c
👇🏼 Full set of student notes and PowerPoint presentation
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k7ctaXaP62x1xVOQ1QXiNwW-vC-hKq6u
We ask of Allah's pardon and acceptance
True Messiah v False Messiah | Ep. 7 | Your Guide to the Blessed Land
We cover:
- The Islamic narrative regarding "Armageddon"
- Is there a "genocidal Hadith"?
- Why Jesus (PBUH) will pray behind one of us
- How everything comes to an end in al-Sham
Make sure you download your notes from the description
https://youtu.be/LB_I7Gn2Wf4
(Image: Ben Gvir hands out sweets in celebration as Knesset approves death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners)
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Zohran wins. What does this mean?
"Zohran Mamdani has won the position of Mayor of New York — despite an aggressive campaign led by the Zionist lobby, Donald Trump himself, and Elon Musk, all aiming to bring him down. Billions were spent, and relentless, coordinated media attacks were launched against him.
Mamdani is now the youngest person ever to hold the office, the first mayor to openly identify as Muslim, and the one who achieved the highest voter turnout in sixty years. He even publicly challenged the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity, declaring that if he ever set foot in New York, he would have him arrested.
A few years ago, anyone predicting such a scenario would have been called delusional — yet here it is, reality.
This historic shift against the Zionist lobby in the U.S. is unlikely to have a direct effect on our region, since American voters primarily chose Mamdani for local issues — better services and governance in New York — not for shaping U.S. foreign policy.
Still, this remarkable event reveals how much the Zionist influence has weakened in recent years. I believe it will send shockwaves through the American political landscape, deepen internal divisions within both parties, and heighten the already sharp polarization in American society — fueling a period of radical transformation across the nation."
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When Gazans are sharing images, videos and Du'aa for the people of Sudan, you know the scale of the atrocities unfolding. O Allah be with them and expose all those complicit.
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A day in the life of a Palestinian woman.
I often wonder how ʿUmar would have reacted to a video like this.
But the Lord of ʿUmar is never absent.
He will raise a people, a believing and courageous people, who will restrain these criminals.