👀 What You Missed This Week

November 30, 2025

DAILYREFLECTIONS

This week, we sat with gratitude over simple plates, remembered death to clarify what truly lasts, and walked back through the tangled stories of our parents and our peoples. Together, these reflections called us to a shukr that refuses complaint, confronts injustice, and gently rewrites what we pass on.

Never Criticize a Blessing

At the Prophet’s ﷺ table, we learn to stop reviewing our meals and start revering them, trading complaints for “alhamdulillah” until every bite becomes training in gratitude and trust in the One who feeds us.

When Death Refocuses Life

By remembering the “destroyer of pleasures,” death, we are not called to gloom but to clarity, turning our days into a quiet race to plant deeds, soften hearts, and build a legacy that outlives our names.

What Giving Thanks Really Means

This reflection exposes how gratitude without justice becomes a mask, calling us instead to an Ibrahim-like shukr that trusts the Giver, remembers stolen lives and lands, and “works in gratitude” by feeding the oppressed and making wrongs right.

When Parents Are a Blessing and a Test

This reflection sits with the truth that parents can be both mercy and test, asking us to see the unseen sacrifices Allah saw, then choose, like Musa, Ibrahim, and Umar, which parts of our inheritance to carry forward and which to lovingly unlearn.

We Are Not Our Parents

This piece names childhood as a “second womb,” inviting us to see both the wounds and the quiet mercies of our parents, grieve what we lacked, and choose, by following the orphaned Prophet ﷺ, to become the gentle, present parent we may never have had.

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WATERMELONWATCH

Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Palestinians who, according to medics, were killed in overnight Israeli strikes, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

  • Death toll in Gaza has now passed 70,000 killed and more than 170,000 wounded as Israeli attacks continue despite a US-brokered ceasefire, with MSF teams still treating women and children hit by airstrikes and drone fire in Gaza City and Rafah. Local doctors, nurses and volunteers keep trauma wards and small clinics running under blackout conditions, often turning hospital corridors and basements into ad-hoc treatment spaces to keep people alive.

  • UNICEF warns that nearly 9,300 children under five are acutely malnourished and facing winter rains, flooding and disease in flimsy tents and shacks across Gaza. Under a UN-coordinated aid mechanism, 28 partners are now serving over 1.5 million hot meals a day through 213 community kitchens, while child-protection teams offer play, counseling and winter kits that give children moments of warmth and normalcy amid the cold.

  • Schools shattered by two years of war mean more than 97 percent of Gaza’s schools have been damaged or destroyed, leaving most education facilities needing full reconstruction or major repair. UNRWA reports more than 300 temporary learning spaces inside its shelters, where volunteer teachers and NGOs run improvised lessons and play circles so displaced children can keep reading, writing and dreaming of a future beyond war.

  • UN Council members have approved a US-sponsored plan for an international stabilisation force in Gaza, while in Pakistan officials signal they will not take on the role of disarming Hamas even as they consider contributing troops to a proposed Muslim-majority force. Across Europe, tens of thousands of people are marching in solidarity with Palestinians and against ongoing attacks, keeping global pressure alive for a political solution that centres justice and civilian protection.

  • US-backed GHF has shut down its controversial aid mission after UN figures tied more than 2,000 Palestinian deaths to crowds around its distribution sites, intensifying calls from Palestinian groups and NGOs for safer ways to deliver food. Under the current UN mechanism and ceasefire, grassroots committees, local charities and international agencies are instead spreading aid through hundreds of smaller kitchens, water points and clinics, aiming to reach families with less danger and more 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.

Hā’ulā’i (هَٰؤُلَاءِ) — These (people)

Hā’ulā’i brings attention close. These people, these ones, these hearts. Sometimes praised, sometimes warned, always seen. The Qur’an uses Hā’ulā’i to show us examples of believers, rejecters, the grateful, the forgetful. It reminds us that the people of the past are not just stories; they are mirrors. And the question is never just about them, but about us.

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