Notes, summaries and reflections from my study of Quran, Hadith, Sirah and Islamic history. Personal — written slowly, posted gently.
What it means to ask for "the straight path" when you don't yet know what straight is.
Time, truth, patience. The shortest blueprint for a life that doesn't waste.
A study in gratitude and recursion.
Why the first hadith in the canon is also the hardest test.
The empathy clause that breaks every tribal argument.
And the Prophet's ﷺ four-line counterstroke to that anxiety.
A working list of the next twenty I want to memorise.
Mecca, Banu Hashim, and the strange Abyssinian campaign that frames the year.
The first business partner, the first believer.
"Read." A two-letter word that re-routed civilization.
From Mecca to Madinah — a journey of strategy and trust.
The shortest constitution ever delivered.
Why the four caliphs still set the bar.
An empire that ran on roads and rhetoric.
How translation became a national project.
The library that fed Europe its Renaissance.
The state that stitched three continents.
Where the umma drew its breath next.
Sayyid Qutb — selective notes, sura by sura.
Ar-Rahiq Al-Makhtum — chapter outlines.
Aaidh al-Qarni — themes I came back to.