When What You Love Becomes Your Test: The Spiritual Anatomy of Letting Go
Some tests do not ask whether you love.
They ask whether you love in the right order.
There are gifts that enter our lives so quietly that we forget they were entrusted rather than possessed. We begin to cling to them, to measure our peace by their presence, until the blessing grows so large in our sight that the Giver fades into the background. The story of Ibrahim (AS) invites us to confront a question every heart must one day answer.
From Moral Man to Psychological Man: How Psychology Reframed the Human
Modern psychology has profoundly shaped how we understand ourselves. We explain our emotions through trauma, our behaviours through conditioning, and our struggles through mental health. But is this the only way to understand what it means to be human? This article explores how psychology reframed the human person, contrasts it with the Islamic understanding of the soul, and asks whether Muslims have unknowingly adopted a worldview that leaves little room for God.
An Islamic Reflection on Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Human Longing for Unconditional Love
An Islamic Reflection on Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Human Longing for Unconditional Love.
New wave spirituality, what’s God got to do with it?
The capitalist modernist undertone is most glaringly obvious in its selling point - ‘no God’.As in true secular capitalist fashion, ‘the self’ has taken on that role. The self is in charge, it decides which parts of spiritual philosophy are followed and when, it decides what is right and wrong and so in essence it is what is being worshipped; it has taken on the role of God. Since people turn to spirituality to gain a sense of self-worth and acceptance, the capitalist narrative plays on this emotion by placing the gratification and exploration of the self as a core concept.