I used to think Istighfar alone would fix my finances. I prayed. I made duʿā. I stayed consistent. And yet… rizq still felt tight.
Until I learned how the Prophet ﷺ actually recited istighfar.
The Arabs in old times used to say:
Four things separate brothers:
wealth, women, jealousy, and death.
Four things make you lose your value among people: talking too much, laughing too much, lying, & gossiping.
Four things by which a wife ruins her home:
stubbornness, anger,
Today, I was reading Surah Al-Kahf and I am officially speechless.
Everyone talks about the 309 years of sleep, but have you ever looked at the biological breakdown of how Allah kept them alive?
It’s not just a story; it’s a medical masterclass.
@PVAenglish Remember: every time world leaders talks about nuclear war, they’s discussing human bodies-the bodies of men, women and kids-being incinerated in an instant, followed by an untold number of agonizing deaths in a long nuclear winter.
Think about this.
every day is a good day to spotlight the two historical fiction titles that have completely changed my life and taught me so much about the plight of the palestinian people. susan abulhawa’s penmanship is a beacon in these trying times, one that everyone should be familiar with
> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country.
> Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities.
> It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh.
> He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP.
> Cold War excuse.
> CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax.
> Mossadegh is overthrown.
> They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator.
> Secret police. Torture chambers.
> Iran turns into a puppet state.
> People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity.
> 1979: Islamic Revolution.
> The Shah flees.
> US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis.
> America never forgives.
> Arms Saddam Hussein.
> Iraq invades Iran.
> US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics.
> 1 million Iranians die.
> Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks.
> US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655
> 290 civilians dead.
> No apology.
> Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran.
> The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.”
> They talk about “regime change.”
> They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.”
> No mention of the coup they started.
> No mention of the dictator they installed.
> No mention of the war they fueled.
> No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage.
> They created the monster, and now they attacked it because it was still breathing.
> Watch who they try to put on the throne next.
> The son of the Shah is already being presented as the “alternative.”
> The same dynasty.
> The same foreign backing.
>The same promises of stability.
> History will repeats itself.
> And it’s not gonna end well.
The war mongering pedophiles that brought you genocide in Gaza and the most scandalous files of abuse in history are now embroiling the world in a war to distract you in the name of “preserving freedom.”
Bombing a girls elementary school and killing over 30 young children is scratching the surface for these monsters. Truly sickening.
🇮🇶Iraq December 2003: Saddam Hussein captured by the United States.
🇻🇪Venezuela January 2026: Nicolás Maduro captured by the same power
When the United States can’t control a nation, it criminalizes its leader.
In light of the recent abduction of Venezuela's Maduro, the warnings of former leaders - from Chavez to Gaddafi - take on an urgent meaning.
While the US cites democracy, security as a motive, these leaders argued the true objective is political domination and resource control.
we are overstimulated and we don’t even notice. netflix while eating. reels in the bathroom. music while cooking. podcasts on walks. we consume by default, not by intention. you keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. they give you space to think and create. that’s when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. leave some room
If you can, read or listen to and reflect on the Tafsir of Surah Al-Imran (Quran 3).
It contains lessons that can fix a person’s relationship with Allah (especially regarding dua and how it is answered), with people, and with life in general.
Someone asked Hassan Al Basri: "what is the secret of your piety?"
He replied, "I understood four things":
1. I understood my rizq cannot be taken by anyone so my heart is content.
2. I understood no one can do my actions (worship) so i started doing them myself.
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A woman’s dignity and modesty are not props to toy with. Least of all on a public stage. As a Muslim woman, watching another woman’s niqab being pulled at so casually, accompanied by that nonchalant smile, was so infuriating.
Power does not grant permission to violate boundaries.
@NitishKumar owes that woman an unconditional apology.
Baghdad a 1000 years ago:
Imam Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله describes one of the palaces of Baghdad:
"Inside it was an astonishing bathhouse. It had a tap, such that if you turned it to the right, hot water would come out, and if you turned it to the left, cold water would come out."
What is the Tomb of the last Ottoman Caliph doing near Ellora in Maharashtra?
The last Caliph, Abdülmecid, was a scholar and painter: an intellectual figure in a fez, kaftan and pince-nez, deeply absorbed in the books of his library. Here he spent most of his middle age, composing classical music, reading the complete works of Victor Hugo and the latest numbers of Revue des Deux Mondes, while cultivating his gardens and painting portraits of his family members. He had been in office barely four months when the Caliphate was abolished on March 3, 1924 in a vote taken in Ankara, Ataturk’s new capital.
Dolmabahçe was surrounded by troops. Abdülmecid was reading the Koran-- or by some accounts the essays of Montaigne-- late at night when the prefect of police came to tell him that he had to leave at dawn. The Caliph took his family and just two servants into exile in Europe aboard the Orient Express. They settled in Nice. Here a few years later he was spotted by the correspondent of Time magazine: “He may be seen strolling with a mien of great dignity along the beach near Nice,” wrote the reporter, “attired in swimming trunks only, carrying a large parasol.”