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08 February 2025
“The Hardest Part. Almost.”
‘I’m going to write your story’. Yaseen was sitting on the hospital bed after a treatment session when...
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16 February 2025
“Asking and Answered”
Istanbul, 2017 I decided I wanted to do something different with my life. I was tired of working in the...
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22 February 2025
“The Book ”
It was barely a month after I had left for Istanbul, chasing an exciting, new career, when I ended up...
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23 February 2025
“God’s Gift”
This is a blog I can’t possibly do justice to. Ask any parent who has lost a child to explain who exactly...
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22 March 2025
“Good and Bad”
I believe in Allah (SWT). I believe in His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, and the Last Day (of Judgement)....
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24 March 2025
‘(Heart)Breaking News’
I’m going to take you back to a day that I found to be significant. It was nearing the end of August...
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28 March 2025
‘This Notion of Control’
What do you do when you hear that your child has cancer? Reflect on this for a few seconds. What do you...
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09 April 2025
“Dealing with Dilemmas”
Never mind my chemotherapy plans of ‘just do it, get done with it and move on’. Allah SWT...
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13 April 2025
“No Coincidence”
“It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts within the chest that are blind” – Qur’an 22:46. The...
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27 April 2025
“The Journal”
If I ask you: “Will you thank Allah, the One who deserves all praise, when things are good?”....
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04 May 2025
“Perception”
It was 2010 and I was in my cabin on a cruise ship with the boys. Yaseen was around eight years old and...
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17 May 2025
“Conscious Conscience”
If a test comes your way, it’s meant to change you. That’s what I believe. There was a version...
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25 May 2025
“BMT”
29 June 2021…Bone Marrow Transplant, Day 1. Yaseen, Mujeeb and I sat in the reception area of the...
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29 May 2025
“A Story to Remember”
The journey that came next was truly hard for us, and these blog posts were extremely difficult to write....
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11 June 2025
“Can You Imagine?”
“Allahu Musta’an“. When your world is crumbling around you, remember these words. Yaqoob...
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29 June 2025
“September”
Yaseen had faced every medical crisis on his own, but the news of his kidneys failing, that was too much...
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13 July 2025
“Where Do You Place Your Footsteps?”
‘Put your feet into the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).’ _ _ _ It was the second...
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10 August 2025
“Life”
This blogpost is a little different from the previous posts. It’s a story of two separate tales...
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19 August 2025
“All It Took, Was One”
There once was a pious man who wished to propose to a woman in a village. So he requested a friend of...
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10 September 2025
“How to Forgive”
No calamity strikes, except by the permission of Allah (SWT). And whoever has faith in Allah SWT, He...
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24 September 2025
“Four on the List”
The Donors… Yaseen’s white blood cells – his fighter cells – needed a boost. Our doctor...
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09 October 2025
“Good Deeds”
If I had to summarize what Saturday, 1 January 2022, felt like, I would say: “Never in my life...
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13 October 2025
“Chasing Jannah”
In the Name of Allah (SWT), the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful ______________ chasing Jannah...
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