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DAILYREFLECTION
And do not lose heart or fall into despair. You will be superior if you are believers.
No matter how organized you are, life will mess with your plans. That's just reality. If there were a formula for the perfect routine, we'd be robots. Being human means making mistakes and hitting obstacles. What matters is how you bounce back.
You can have everything dialed in. And things will still break down. When that happens and your intentions are sincere, you need to move past it and keep your good habits alive.
The Prophet (ﷺ) gave timeless advice for exactly this situation: Stick to what benefits you. Seek Allah's help and don't give up. And when something sets you back, don't say "if only I had done something different." Say that whatever Allah decreed will happen. Because "if only" opens the door to Shaitaan's work.
Setbacks will hit. Not if, but when. When they do, remember his words and keep moving forward. Don't waste energy on regret wishing you'd done things differently. If you built your habits with the right intention, challenges push you to improve, not quit.
Create stretch goals, standard goals, and backup goals.
Say you're memorizing Quran. You know you can handle two lines daily. On great days, you push to four lines. That's your stretch goal. But one line? That's your backup. Even on your most exhausted days, you can manage one line. It's almost too easy.
Plan every day around that two-line standard. Feeling amazing? Go for four and enjoy the extra reward. Rough day? Fall back to one line.
Instead of completely failing your goal, you've got a ready backup, still check the box, and trigger that sense of accomplishment.
The alternative? Let one disruption wreck your entire day. Break the chain of feeling productive. Tell yourself "What's the point?" and watch negativity bleed into everything else.
Don't do that. Build your backup plan now. When life throws you off, you'll be ready.
Reflect On This
What's your most important daily habit, and what would a realistic backup goal look like?
Share your reflections in the poll at the end of the email.
WATERMELONWATCH
Palestinians, including war-wounded and patients, accompanied by relatives, get ready to leave Gaza for treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after it was opened by Israel on Monday for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Rafah crossing reopened with tight limits and slow processing, offering a narrow lifeline for medical evacuations and family reunification even as insecurity and restrictions persist.
Attacks continue across Gaza, with ongoing civilian harm and massive displacement pressures, while aid and cash support reached large numbers of households in January and some health services expanded, including the first open heart surgeries since 2023.
UNICEF partners are scaling temporary learning spaces and newly permitted recreational and school kits to help children cope and keep learning, as families also lean on small home gardens near shelters to supplement food when access is uneven.
QURANCORNER
وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
“And He sent against them birds in flocks,”
Wa arsala ‘alayhim ṭayran abābīl
"Ṭayran abābīl": Flocks of birds, sent miraculously by Allah as a means of punishment. The birds came in groups from various directions.