Dhikr Publishing

Coming soon to iPhone and Android

Train your nafs. Free your heart.

The Discipline App helps Muslims break the habits that keep pulling them back. One small fight at a time, with a method that is over 1,100 years old.

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Which phone do you use?

We will email you when the app is ready, and about nothing else. No spam, and we never share your address.

  • No streaks
  • No ads
  • No account
  • Stays on your phone

The problem

You promised yourself. Then you did it again.

The late-night scroll. The habit you hide. The prayer you rushed. You know what is right, yet something inside you keeps winning.

  • 01

    The habit comes back

    You stop for a week. Then one tired evening undoes it all, and you are back where you began.

  • 02

    The shame follows

    You feel like a hypocrite. So you hide it, pray with a heavy heart, and feel further from Allah.

  • 03

    The apps make it worse

    Streak counters punish every slip. One fall and the number says zero, so you stop opening the app.

You are not weak. Your nafs is untrained. And a heart made to know Allah should not be ruled by a screen or a craving.

Cover of Discipline of the Self by al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī The book behind the app →

There is a way through

The scholars mapped this fight long ago

We know this struggle, because it is ours too. It is every believer’s struggle, and it always has been.

In the third Islamic century, al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī wrote a manual for it. He taught that the nafs is not beaten by willpower, and not by shame. It is trained, the way a wild horse is broken in, through many small acts of holding back.

We translated and published that manual as Discipline of the Self. Then we built the Discipline App, so you can practise it every day.

1,100+
years the method has been taught
70+
short lessons inside the app
0
streaks to break

The plan

Three steps. A few minutes a day.

  1. 1

    Name what pulls at you

    Choose three to five things your nafs reaches for. The second coffee. The late-night scroll. The habit you most want to be free of.

  2. 2

    Stand and fight

    When the urge strikes, press one button. Breathe for a few minutes with words that steady the heart, and let the wave pass.

  3. 3

    Return every day

    Seek forgiveness, send blessings on the Prophet ﷺ, pray with presence and read one short lesson. Then see how far you have come.

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What is inside

Everything you need for the fight

01

Mujāhadah

A timer for the moment the urge strikes

Choose three, five or ten minutes. Breathe with the circle while short reminders steady you. An urge rises like a wave, crests and falls back. Here you learn that by living it.

02

Delights check-in

Train with small, lawful pleasures

Set a gentle target for each delight: three instead of five, not "never again". Then tap Held back or Gave in. Both are honest notes, and neither is a verdict.

03

Polish the heart

Daily istighfār and ṣalawāt

Each time you seek forgiveness, a dark and cracked heart grows a little brighter. At one hundred it shines. Then send blessings on the Prophet ﷺ and watch the pearls gather.

04

Presence in prayer

Bring your heart to ṣalāh

After each prayer, note where your heart was: absent, drifting, present or immersed. Prayer times are worked out on your phone, and your location never leaves it.

05

Lessons and progress

Learn a little. See the whole road.

More than seventy short lessons, a few minutes each. And honest reports by day, week, month and year, with no streak to lose and no red marks.

A heart is polished the way it was darkened: a little at a time.

وَٱلَّذِينَ جَـٰهَدُوا۟ فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا

“And those who strive for Us, We will surely guide them to Our ways.”

Qur’an 29:69

What is at stake

Two roads from here

If nothing changes

  • The same promise at night, broken by morning
  • A heart that feels a little heavier each year
  • Prayers your body attends and your mind does not
  • Hours you were lent, spent on nothing

With daily training

  • You notice the urge before your hand moves
  • You can wait, and you find that it passes
  • A fall becomes a return, not a spiral
  • A heart with room in it for Allah

The app is only a tool. Success comes from Allah alone.

Built with care

Firm with the nafs. Gentle with you.

Nothing leaves your phone

No account, no tracking and no ads. What you record about your struggles stays on your device.

No streak to break

A lost fight is a battle, not the war. Nothing ever resets to zero.

No judgement

No red for failure and no green for success. Only an honest record.

Not now, rather than never

What is lawful stays lawful. You are training the nafs to wait, not banning joy.

Reminders through the day

Gentle nudges to return, which you can switch off one by one.

Works offline

Lessons, timers and prayer times all work with no connection.

Questions

Before you join

When will the app be ready?

We are finishing it now, for iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist and we will email you the day it is out.

Will it be free?

No. It will be a paid app, which is how we can keep it free of ads and tracking. The price is not set yet, and people on the waitlist will hear it first.

Is this only for serious sins?

No. The training starts with small, lawful pleasures such as an extra coffee or a late-night scroll. Learning to say "not now" to those is what builds the strength to leave what is harmful.

What if I keep falling?

Then you return, as every believer does. The app has no streak to break and never tells you that you failed. A lost fight is a battle, not the war.

Do I need to read the book first?

No. The app teaches you as you go, in short lessons. The book goes deeper, and the two work well side by side.

What will you do with my email?

We will use it to tell you when the app is ready, and for nothing else. We do not share it or sell it. Reply to any email from us and we will remove you.

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The war is yours to wage. The victory belongs to Allah.

Leave your email and we will tell you the day the Discipline App is ready for iPhone and Android. People on the list hear first.

Which phone do you use?

We will email you when the app is ready, and about nothing else. No spam, and we never share your address.