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The Journey
Amongst sages and scholars, saints and loversStudents and servants, martyrs and callersProvidence did afford so opportune a travelThat this tangled…
October 9, 2024Poems
Like No Other
How wide one opens the door to his heart, to let another inThus deep does he risk, the dagger be…
October 2, 2024Poems
Faltering Steps
I wandered hither and yonder, faltered whither astrayTill Mercy let me no longer wanderAnd settled my tired feet upon this…
October 2, 2024Poems
Long Waits
Leisurely ticks the second hand.Making customary circuits andLazy rounds, within the perimeter of eternity.While bounds, of anticipation set me freeOf…
October 2, 2024Poems
Dreamchaser
Turn where I mayStill engulfed by an emptinessWithout escapeHowever quickly I runIt outpaces meWherever I hideI find, It has outstripped…
October 2, 2024Poems
Forever Together
I let go of your handAnd feel the same visceral painThat I have grown used toTears well in the throatThat…
October 2, 2024Poems
Raising the Axe
Every idol that I hatedI found staring at me withinThe house that You had createdTo be fully free from sin…
October 2, 2024Poems
Shadow of the Tsunami
So much to say, never spokenThough even the blind can speakFrom a dam, partially brokenA breaking trickle begins to leakAs…
October 2, 2024Poems
Coming Home
If love were a city I would crawl through every alley On hand and knee Feeling every crevice Caressing each…
October 2, 2024Articles
Curriculum for the Saalik
1. Perform Complete Salah Prayers should not be performed perfunctorily; they should be offered with presence of mind as well.…
October 9, 2024Articles
Seeking Knowledge: How Do I Do It?
For most individuals in the West who are trying to balance school, work, and family, its often hard to know…
October 9, 2024Poems
Confessions
I will not admit I love you Even though that is what I feel For fear of feeling like every…
March 12, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-14
In the war against sin, the battle is not against the final act, but rather the first
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-15
When you become real, you are able to see reality, to appreciate things for what they are. You no longer…
December 29, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-16
When you become real, you are able to see reality, to appreciate things for what they are. You no longer…
December 29, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-17
Islam is the solution to every problem not in so much as it erases them but in that it helps…
October 9, 2024Articles
Twenty Reasons to Be a Scholar of Islam
1 – To earn the pleasure of Allah SWT. “Whoever Allaah SWT wants good for, He gives him fiqh (understanding) of the…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-17
Islam is the solution to every problem not in so much as it erases them but in that it helps…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-16
When you become real, you are able to see reality, to appreciate things for what they are. You no longer…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-14
In the war against sin, the battle is not against the final act, but rather the first
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-13
We have not been sent to earth to accumulate maal, but rather to accumulate a'maal.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-12
It's funny that when you want to let go, holding on is the only way out.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-8
If words are taken to represent realities beyond themselves, then there is no word more perfect than Allah.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-5
To gloat over self control, openly or implicitly, indicates a dearth of the same.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-4
The secret to good living has little to do with what we have, and much to do with how we…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 2-3
A smart person is able to discern the correct answer, a wise person the right choice. The two are often not…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-99
When confronted with sin, exit is more important than the gracious part.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-98
There is no name more beautiful than Thine, especially when nothing but silence clasps these ears of mine. The head…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-96
Trials provide an opportunity for love and sacrifice to manifest, for the potential to become kinetic. A rose is always…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-95
We are a curious breed - quite literally. Tell one not to Google your name and they most surely will.…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-94
Growth requires change, and change is uncomfortable. Being too snug is a sign of spiritual dormancy.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-92
As unsavory as it is, we are sometimes required to compromise our principles. The line between Hikmah and Mudahanah (sycophantry)…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-90
Some speak over others by tongue, others in their mind. Both make poor listeners.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-89
The spiritual engine behind the entire Ummah is the heart of Rasulullah (S). We are each but a caboose or…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-88
The spring of wisdom spouts more from experience than labored thought, if only because it is hard to think about…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-87
We inspire other less by what we achieve than by what we have sacrificed to achieve it.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-86
Zikr polishes the heart. When the lens is clear, one can see things for what they are.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-82
The difference between patience and thankfulness is that in one we endure, in the other we accept.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-80
In matters of the Dunya, I have learned that where I am is best, not where I want to be.…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-78
Sometimes we travel so long only to learn we are not very far from where we left.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-77
By taking the first step on the road that leads to a sin, one has already passed the point of…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-76
Magnanimity in the face of an affront melts the heart almost as quickly as selfless love.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-75
Too often, we misdraw our limits. The battle is not against sin, but rather the environment of sin. If one…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-74
Nature is thus: what holds substance is pulled rapidly to the earth, while hot air so quickly riseth. How distant…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-72
An action many times is not nearly as valuable as the attitude behind it.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-71
If we must leave everything we love, why do we love everything we must leave?
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-70
Taqwa protects 'Amal, and 'Amal Iman. To avoid losing faith, gaurd Taqwa, Iman will follow.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-69
Insight requires that we be brave enough to see ourselves for who we are, not who we want to be.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-68
Piety precedes the preach. One cannot give what he or she does not have.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-66
The greater the treasure, the more assiduously one stands sentry over it. The same applies with the Qurb of Allah…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-65
People often contemplate how to achieve Taqwa. Know that people only guard something when they possess something worth guarding.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-64
Perhaps the best way to wash away the trail of tears created by one's past is by creating a river…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-63
The paradox of time lies in that the more we get in life, the less we have.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-62
Time is amnesic. The key lies in not allowing ourselves to forget lessons learned and vows made.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-61
You may own things of the dunya; just ensure that that the dunya does not own you.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-60
Disillusionment with Dunya begins when the illusion ends; her elusion begins when our disillusionment does.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-59
Is belief predicated on faith or reason? Faith. This may be unsavory to some, terrifying even. It rings of barbarism-…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-58
There are myriad reasons why people leave the Deen in this day and age - the slow rust of sin, scourge…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-57
Sin is not always the product of venial inception. A classic example is that of curiosity. How many has Shaytaan…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-56
Structures follow substance, not the other way around. Let milk be made before the glass fashioned.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-55
If you are to serve as a base for those close to you, the foundation upon which your loved ones…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-54
People too often take the Deen being easy to mean what's easy being Deen; when, in fact, the two are…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-51
Perpetual striving to achieve Istiqamah is also an example of the same.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-50
A child learns to walk first by faltering, even falling down, but always getting back up. So too is the…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-49
Altercations have the uncanny ability to induce deafness, making the benefit of screaming incremental to absent.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-48
Yelling and education are often mutually exclusive. Teach children what to do calmly but firmly. This serves the latter goal…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-47
The language of love is felt not heard. That is why it is hard to convince someone to love you.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-46
There is an element of masochism in choosing to be a prisoner of love.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-45
Bondsmanship to the Infinite removes bounds; attachment to the finite imposes them.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-43
To love is to open oneself to hurt; without this risk, it is not love. Perhaps the only haven lies…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-42
Actions are not spontaneous; they are but branches of a tree. And any agronomist will tell you that every tree…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-41
A sign of love for Allah is that you continue to seek Him even when you feel nothing inside.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-40
I would rather live life in obedient sobriety than disobedience couched in ardency, however fervent.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-37
I don't know what is the stronger driving force: acceptance or rejection. What is clear though is that one excludes…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-36
Things cost. To purchase the adoration of people, one must pay with the love of Allah (SWT).
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-35
It is when one stops believing they are perfect that they start the journey of perfection.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-34
(2:285) وَقَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا There is a certain futility in asking, "Why?" Since when was the truth value of a…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-33
Rather than determining what to believe, our time would be much better spent simply believing.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-31
(63:7) وَلِلَّـهِ خَزَائِنُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ Our persistence in sin can never outstrip His forbearance, just as our insatiable wants can…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-29
In relinquishing want, find freedom - in accepting poverty, slavehood.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-28
One who allows themselves to be held captive by their past, relinquishes something of their future.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-27
I've never loved anything so unseen, but yet never seen any love so real.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-26
On this path, expect celestial occurrences to be bound by terrestrial constraints.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-24
While one must live in the world, he cannot love it. Such is the state of a traveler whose home…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-23
The mercy of Allah SWT abounds. He made seven limbs touch the ground in sajdah to remind us of seven…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-22
The uninitiated Nafs hates restraint; corralling is indeed hard work. But in wolf country, one can only go home when…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-21
One problem with having one's head above the clouds is that it is easy to lose sight of the rest…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-19
Do you dissolve a relationship because the two of you are not compatible? Compatibility is a funny thing. It sure…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-18
You can be right, or you can reach resolution. In life, the two are oftentimes not synonymous. He who seeks…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-17
A single touch outstrips a hundred words, sweeter than honey, softer than rose. But love pure, outweighs them all -…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-12
Knowledge without spirituality is empty; spirituality without knowledge misguidance.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-11
"I never let my emotions overcome my intellect, and I never let my intellect overcome the Shari’ah." – Maulana Ashraf…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-10
The one who knows but acts not has little advantage over one who knows naught.
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-9
Shelter is a place of refuge from the elements, an escape from the chilling embrace of winter. I envision the warmth of…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-8
It seems that everyday we are confronted with our inability to be who we would like to be, by our personal…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-7
For important admissions or presentations, people set up mock rehearsals. The salik should also run a mock. Nightly, weekly, monthly…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-6
Sins of intimate nature appear irresistible. No matter how prolific the swimmer, he cannot fight high tide. One confronted finds…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-5
There are those that love Shakespeare, and then those that love the feeling of understanding something no one else can.…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-4
There is an Arabic aphorism that states: كُلُّ جَدِيدٍ لذِيذٌ This rings particularly true today where we see a shared…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-3
We agree that transparency is important in relationships. That is not to say that everything need be said, but rather…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-2
Some judge piety by the length of their beards, the width of their khimar, or the height of their knowledge.…
October 9, 2024Reflections
Reflection 1-1
It is a western malady. We dub sin as modernity and godliness as old-fashioned. The former is seen as rapidly…
October 9, 2024