Unwavering Zikr
Constancy in zikr even without pleasure results in a closeness with Allah and the heart being wholesome. Shaykh Ashraf Ali Thanwi
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Coping with Failure and Loss
So you didn’t pass that exam. Or maybe a relationship fell apart, or your side hustle flopped. It sucks, yeah—but it’s not the end of your story. 📚 Tons of people have been through it. They’ve stumbled, picked themselves up, and crushed it later. Some had to fail a bunch of times before they finally made it big. That’s real life. 🧠 The real danger? Thinking failure means you’re done for. That mindset traps you while everyone else keeps moving
Read moreGood Character – the heartbeat of Faith
“Good character is the crown of a believer — it beautifies faith more than gold adorns a king.”
Read moreTrue Humility: Accepting the Truth, No Matter Who Speaks It
On True humility, Fudayl ibn ‘Iyad (rahimahullah) said: “Humility is subjecting to what is right [the haqq] and submitting to/following it. If you hear it [haqq] from a child, you accept it, or even if you hear it from the most ignorant of people, you still accept it.” (Ibn Abid Dunya, At Tawadu’ Wal Khumul: 88, Hilyatul Awliya, vol. 8 pg. 91)
Read moreRectifying others before oneself
“Beware of being preoccupied with rectifying others before you rectify yourself.” Mukhtasar Minhāj al-Qāsideen | Imām ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi [may Allāh have mercy on him] “Beware of being preoccupied with rectifying others before you rectify yourself. Busy yourself with rectifying your heart within you and purifying it from blameworthy traits such as greed, envy, ostentation, and vanity before rectifying what is outside of you.” Source: Mukhtaṣar Minhāj al-Qāṣidīn 1/20
Read moreDeterioration of the Ummah
How can we complain about the laymen? Even the condition of the learned is now deteriorating. Hazrat Moulana Maseehullah Khan
Read moreLooking at Shortcomings
how to overlook shortcomings of others in Islam “Overlook the shortcomings of others but not your own.” Shaykh Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki Source: The counsel of Haji Imdadullah Muhajjir Makki
Read moreHow Trusting Allah’s Plan Lifts Sadness and Depression
“Sadness and depression will be relieved when the believers realise and accept that they have neither the power to avoid what has befallen them, nor the power to bring about what was not destined for them, and by remembering that everything Allah has decreed for them is only blessing for their benefit.” Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله)
Read moreSpend from what Allah has given you
Spend from what Allah has given you. Do not fear poverty. Allah will give you as He has promised. No one who has been generous has ever perished in destitution. [Ibn Arabi] The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said ‘Give the sadaqah without delay, for it stands in the way of calamity.’ (Tirmidhi) The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Charity extinguishes the sins like water extinguishes a fire’. [Ibn Majah] See also: Virtues of CharityCharity wrapped in dignity
Read moreEnd your negligence
The more one is grounded in beautiful and praiseworthy character and free of despicable character, negligence will come to an end and one will be alert and saved from the wiles of the Nafs. Hazrat Moulana Maseehullah Khan
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