• Your Social Circle: Are Your Friends Leading You to Jahannam?

    You are who you surround yourself with. The people you call your friends become your neighbours in your akhirah. Where you live out your inhabitance is up to you. The question is, who is surrounding you today?

  • “I was once friends with a homewrecker.”

    From ‘The Private Journal’ of Umm Idris. Umm Idris shares the haunting tales of discovering the truth about those around you.

  • “Barakah only came when I left those sins behind.”

    From ‘The Private Journal’ of Umm Idris. Umm Idris shares her personal reflections of her struggles with barakah and rizq and discovers why.

  • For The Blushing Bride: Let’s Talk About Sex.

    While it remains the ultimate taboo topic for an engaged Muslimah to talk about, it continues to be an important conversation to have. This author begins this series of writes with an invitation to provide knowledgeable support and reassurances for those who are nervous to begin their married lives.

  • Do Not Make Islam Difficult For Others.

    Aren’t you afraid of being the person who pushes someone away from practicing Islam because you insist on making what may very well be sunnah or not at all part of being a Muslim something that must be practiced?

  • Have You Noticed Others Avoiding You Lately?

    When we instigate fights, we are not just severing ties with others. We are poisoning the wells of our own barakah and isolating ourselves when Qiyamah comes. As one’s fiery temper scorches their world, they find themselves wandering life alone, haunted by the silence of desertion.

  • “I didn’t realise I was suicidal.”

    From ‘The Private Journal’ of Umm Idris. Umm Idris shares her parenting reflections from her childhood with the hope that her story will gently guide other parents from making the same mistakes and collectively learn from them for the sake of our future generations.

  • The Mini Parental Series: Have We Let Go Too Much?

    When is granting autonomy and freedom too much for your child? Is there a moment in our parenting journey where we need to ask ourselves if taking control becomes counterproductive to their iman or critical and neccessary for the sake of it?

  • My Neighbour With A Blackened Heart.

    There is nothing quite like an ice-cold dose of reality when you discover than even the closest of people to you are simply waiting to celebrate any grief or discord in your home and marriage.

  • We Are All Getting Dressed To Go To Jahannam.

    Amidst the chaos of dunya, there is a gutwrenching fear that settles in my heart at the sight of our ummah. As I observe our brothers and sisters, I discover the rising inclination to compromise one’s awrah becoming parallel to that of the rising population who have gone to sleep in their adherence to the…