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It’s not all pretty, that’s for sure. When I first stepped into seclusion, I imagined it would feel like taking a few days off work — like calling in sick when you just can’t be bothered. But this wasn’t that. I wasn’t just tired. I was broke, inside and out. Spiritually bankrupt. The kind of empty where even an iota of goodness feels hard to find. That was my reason for retreating: to synchronize my annual leave with something more … Continue reading “What I Learned in Seclusion”

Zanzibar — A Storehouse of the Awliyāʾ To walk through Zanzibar is to breathe in a city that is more than stone and spice. It is a storehouse of the awliyāʾ, men and women whose baraka still lingers in the alleyways, the mosques, and the seafront air. Among these, the Ba ʿAlawi Saadat — descendants of the Prophet ﷺ — stand out as pillars who carried Islam into the Swahili world not by sword or decree, but by teaching, trading, … Continue reading “The Ba ʿAlawi Saadat — A Living Inheritance from Hadramaut, Zanzibar and Beyond”