A Liberating Love

One of the supreme weaknesses that Allah has created the human with is embodied in a desire to have love around him. Allah has created us to love, to desire love and to be moved towards the source of love. The more I see of this world, its days and nights, the more I breathe in…

If You Are Here

Maybe sometimes we need to just stop. Stop trying, regretting and fretting. Just stop and lay down. The thousand ways that you have gone wrong have already burdened your shoulders. You are bent, tired and alone. Nothing, absolutely nothing appears to be working towards something a tinge better than the present. If you are here,…

Unfit for Love

I have always been a diary-person. Always. From the time I learnt to write broken meaningless sentences, I owned a diary. It was not uncommon for an introvert like me who was deprived of friendship and security to find a friend in my own words and a comfort in my accounts of the day repeated…

The Test of Repentance

I can’t give Mufti Ismail Menk enough credit for this wonderful lecture that I was privileged to get my hands (ears) on. The lecture was about the fake sweetness attached to sins which turns into regrets once the sin has been committed. Interesting, isn’t it? But there was something more so that caught my special…

Proudly Lost

If you don’t humble yourself before Allah, He has the means to humble you down before Him. And you can never be too cool for Islam. You can only be too ignorant of it to have that thought. There is a huge, huge chunk of muslim youngsters going in that line. And it saddens me…