👀 What You Missed This Week

A journey through sincerity, balance, repentance, and the remedies of the heart.

September 28, 2025

DAILYREFLECTIONS

This week traced the balanced soul, wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice through our prophets and caliphs, calling us to sincere worship, righteous company, and strength as restraint when anger stirs.

The Four Inner Powers: The Legacy of the Khulafa

A map of the balanced soul: knowledge, anger, and desire governed by justice, reflected in Abu Bakr’s courage, ʿUmar’s fairness, ʿUthmān’s modesty, and ʿAlī’s wisdom.

When Strength Meets Its Counterweight

Dawud and Sulaiman were praised not for power, but for the counterweights to it, night prayer and detachment, teaching that true honor is sincerity that tames the ego.

When Good Deeds Become a Trap

Good deeds cannot launder harm: the true bankrupt is rich in worship yet poor in character, so keep doing good and cut the sins that ride behind it.

Companions Shape the Heart

Your circle writes your character. Choose companions who turn you toward Allah so doubt becomes certainty and heedlessness becomes remembrance.

The Door Allah Opens for You

Imam Mālik taught that Allah opens different doors of worship for each soul, prayer, charity, teaching, so walk the path He made spacious for you with sincerity.

From Trigger to Tranquility

Real strength is hilm, not dominance, slow the surge of anger with Allah-conscious pause, then choose a response that preserves dignity.

WATERMELONWATCH

Displaced Palestinians flee northern Gaza, by vehicle and on foot, carrying their belongings along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza

  • Airstrikes and gunfire have killed at least 59 people across Gaza, including families in camps and displaced people in tents, while hospitals grapple with shortages and damage.

  • Hamas says it has not received the U.S. “Trump plan,” even as Israel intensifies its assault on Gaza City and over 120 airstrikes were reported.

  • UAE foreign minister urged Netanyahu to halt the Gaza war during their New York meeting, signaling growing Arab pressure on Israel.

  • US envoy Steve Witkoff expressed confidence that a breakthrough in Gaza peace negotiations may emerge in the coming days.

  • UN inquiry found that Israeli officials have incited genocide in Gaza, a finding Israel strongly rejects, calling it biased and false.

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.

As-Ṣirāṭ (ٱلصِّرَاط) - The Path

As-Ṣirāṭ is not just any road; it’s the path. The one that is straight, clear, and blessed. We ask for it with every prayer: Guide us to the straight path. It’s a journey of faith, action, and mercy. And walking it means more than reaching a destination; it means walking with purpose, step by step, toward Him.

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