Ali Hammuda

On a journey when water was scarce, the Prophet ﷺ poured for his Companions with his own hand until only he and Abū Qatādah remained. When Abū Qatādah refused to drink before him, he said: إِنَّ سَاقِيَ الْقَوْمِ آخِرُهُمْ شُرْبًا "The one who gives the people…

Within just a few months in 2026, four new books have appeared that take aim at therapy culture and pop psychology: - Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond, by the American physician and missionary Matthew Loft…

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Look out for the upcoming book launch, in shā’ Allāh: Palestine: What Every Muslim Must Know

Challenges of modern therapy One of the problems with popular modern therapy is that it can gradually become the Muslim’s first language for understanding himself and the world around him, distancing him from the language of Qur’an, Sunnah and his vast Islamic…

[Continued] “Do not call grapes al-karm, for al-karm is the Muslim man.” (Muslim) A word ordinarily used for a grapevine was corrected because words carry associations, values and ways of seeing the world. Likewise, regarding the night prayer, the Prophet ﷺ sa…

There is a profound difference between being familiar with the day of judgement, or even believing in it, and centralizing it. All Muslims do the former, but few succeed in achieving the latter. Believing in it entails accepting its existence. Centralizing it,…

Make no mistake. The Ed Sheeran saga is a warning to every Muslim figure of visibility who thinks he can live forever in the safe middle ground, always playing the harmless, agreeable figure. How many more times does this need to be said? Consequence will catc…