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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
09 April 2025
“Dealing with Dilemmas”
Never mind my chemotherapy plans of ‘just do it, get done with it and move on’. Allah SWT...
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...
27 April 2025
“The Journal”
If I ask you: “Will you thank Allah, the One who deserves all praise, when things are good?”....
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...
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...
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....
11 June 2025
“Can You Imagine?”
“Allahu Musta’an“. When your world is crumbling around you, remember these words. Yaqoob...
29 June 2025
“September”
Yaseen had faced every medical crisis on his own, but the news of his kidneys failing, that was too much...
13 July 2025
“Where Do You Place Your Footsteps?”
‘Put your feet into the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).’ _ _ _ It was the second...
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...
10 September 2025
“How to Forgive”
No calamity strikes, except by the permission of Allah (SWT). And whoever has faith in Allah SWT, He...
24 September 2025
“Four on the List”
The Donors… Yaseen’s white blood cells – his fighter cells – needed a boost. Our doctor...
09 October 2025
“Good Deeds”
If I had to summarize what Saturday, 1 January 2022, felt like, I would say: “Never in my life...
13 October 2025
“Chasing Jannah”
In the Name of Allah (SWT), the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful ______________ chasing Jannah...