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I’m not very good at making du’a, for I never really know what to ask for other than forgiveness and guidance. My wife is always exhorting me to make more supplications, for she sees me arise quickly after my prayers, her own hands still lifted towards the heavens. It may be that I am ashamed [...]

You never know which intermediary will bring you guidance. I arrived back from work at quarter to seven this evening, parking up carefully because we’ve had a scattering of snow that has since turned to ice. Closing the front door behind me, I headed straight for the kitchen to turn the boiler up and put [...]

Saving Sajdah (Sumayah Hassan, An Obscure Sanctum) 

Did your friend die the day they went a little odd? Did you bury your friend that day? How terribly sad, don’t you think, given that saying about true friendship? ‘A friend in need…’ Are friends only for the good times? For times of joy and good humour? Are friends only for agreement, for support, [...]

Instead of leaving snide remarks about departed writers in the comment fields of others’ blogs, why don’t you remember them in your du’as? Pray for their iman, their health and their wellbeing. Pray that Allah reward them for the good they put forth and for all that benefitted you, and ask that He forgives them [...]

Random quotations keep on flowing into my mind: ‘they were not wronged, but they wronged themselves’ utmost amongst them. In this tragedy that it is my life — the perpetual oscillation between right and wrong curtailing my spiritual growth — every week seems to bring a new low and senseless despair. There came a sudden [...]