Journal

Notes on dhikr, reading, and the making of our books.

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2 September 2024

The Weakness of the Islamic World in the Face of the Crusader Attacks

How disunity and corruption among the leaders of the Islamic world opened the door to the Crusader seizure of Nicaea and the Levant.

by Dhikr

18 August 2024

Why citing Salahudeen's victories while awaiting a new saviour misreads history — and what the generation that recaptured Jerusalem actually did.

by Dhikr

11 August 2024

The meditative contemplation of Islamic scholars: precise observations of creation, from feathers to ants, that strengthen faith.

by Dhikr

5 August 2024

Al-Muhasibi's Kitab al-Tawahhum: meditating on death, the barzakh, and the hereafter through vivid spiritual imagination.

by Dhikr

23 March 2024

Part two of al-Ghazali on repentance: is regret alone tawbah, and what conditions must accompany it before it counts?

by Dhikr

15 March 2024

The second valley of al-Ghazali's Minhaj al-Abideen: the road of tawbah, and what sincere repentance demands of the one who travels it.

by Dhikr