A Quranic Diagnosis of Our Emotional Fragility There are moments we’ve all experienced: something small goes wrong and our emotional reaction far outweighs the event.   Someone drinks your soda, doesn’t reply to a message or shows up wearing the same outfit. These aren’t earth-shattering incidents, yet they can send us into spirals of frustration, silence […]

What happens when money, culture or family become more important than Allah?  I want to talk to you about something that’s hard to admit—but even harder to ignore: The Mushrikun worshiped idols. And we—Muslims—have our own idols now.  We don’t bow to statues, but we still obey without question. And that’s all it takes for something to […]

Surah Al-Muddaththir, Ayah 38, offers a profound reminder of our reality: كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ “Every soul is bound by what it has earned as a ransom.”This Ayah uses the powerful word رَهِينَةٌ (rahina), which means a pledge, collateral or hostage. In classical Arabic, it describes something left as security for a loan—like leaving […]