👀 What You Missed This Week

November 23, 2025

DAILYREFLECTIONS

This week, we met procrastination, distraction, and self-forgetting with honest action, protected attention, and deep shukr, learning to treat our time, faculties, and even our inner voice as sacred trusts before Allah.

Stop Carrying What You Should Have Closed Yesterday

A glass of water held too long becomes agony, and the story of Kaʿb ibn Mālik shows how small delays and open loops can grow into crushing regret until truth and tawbah finally set the heart down.

The Sunnah of Fierce Focus

From a patterned rug to a softened mattress, the Prophet ﷺ gently removed even the smallest distractions from his life, teaching us to trim modern noise not out of harshness, but to keep the heart clear for Allah.

The Dua That Turns Motionlessness Into Momentum

Between “I can’t” and “I won’t,” the Prophet’s ﷺ du‘ā’ exposes the two thieves of purpose, inviting us to pair clear intention and ‘azm with true tawakkul so our work, whatever its form, becomes worship instead of empty grind.

Your Eyes, Your Time, Your Mind: All on Record

Our eyes, tongue, hands, and mind are not personal perks but divine trusts that will one day speak, calling us to use every faculty now in service of the One who gave them.

The Book You’re Writing Every Day

On that Day, Allah will hand you your own book and say, “Read,” and every line of it will reflect whether you lived in excuses or in honest self-accounting, returning to His mercy again and again.

The Language That Changes Everything

In the same desert home, one wife of Ismāʿīl spoke only of hardship while the other spoke only of praise, teaching that shukr is not a change of circumstance but a change of sight that turns every sip of water into a sign of Allah’s mercy.

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WATERMELONWATCH

A mourner sits next to the body of a Palestinian killed in Israeli attacks at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

  • Israeli strikes killed at least two dozen people across central and northern Gaza, in yet another breach of the October ceasefire, and hospitals report being stretched as families rush the wounded in by car and cart. Local volunteers and medics continue to form informal ambulance networks, coordinating by phone and WhatsApp to get people to care despite fuel and equipment shortages.

  • UN kitchens and local charities are still running community cooking points, with recent UN data noting more than a million hot meals in a single day earlier this month, even as aid trucks entering Gaza remain far below what is needed. These kitchens have become small islands of normalcy, where neighbours share bread, charge phones from a generator, and check on widows, elders and families with young children.

  • Sand sculptors in Gaza are carving temporary artworks along the battered coastline, drawing crowds of children and parents who watch faces, calligraphy and cityscapes rise from the sand before the evening tide erases them. The artists say they return every morning to start again, using simple tools and stubborn hope to give displaced families a brief escape and to affirm, “We were born here, our children were born here… this is our home.”

  • UN stabilisation plans for Gaza moved a step forward this week with a Security Council resolution backing an international force and transitional authority, while leaders in Canada and the UAE publicly reiterated support for a two state solution rooted in Palestinian self determination. Civil society groups and legal advocates are already using this moment to push for stronger protection guarantees for civilians and for genuine Palestinian voices to be included in any future governance framework.

  • ICRC president renewed calls for a lasting ceasefire, stressing that it is critical to save lives, reunite hostages and detainees with their families and allow life saving aid to enter Gaza at full scale. The organisation says its teams remain ready to act as a neutral intermediary, and continues to facilitate releases and returns of remains, giving some families long delayed moments of closure and a chance to bury their loved ones with dignity.

QURANCORNER

Each day, you’ll be introduced to one of the 300 most common Qur’anic words. The Qur’an has about 77,430 words in total, all built on just 2,000 root words. By learning these frequently recurring ones, you’ll recognize 70–80% of the Qur’an’s vocabulary and begin connecting more deeply as you read.

Maʿa (مَعَ) — With / Alongside

Maʿa means more than just with it means not alone. When Allah says, inna Allāha maʿa aṣ-ṣābirīn. Indeed, Allah is with the patient; it's not just comfort, it's strength. Maʿa reminds us that in our hardest moments, our quietest prayers, and our deepest struggles, we are never by ourselves. To have maʿa Allāh is to have everything.

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