“Guiding Souls, Mending Hearts – Our Teachers in Faith, Practical Wisdom, and Spiritual Growth”.
Guiding hearts towards Allah, leaving a lasting mark on the path to a righteous tomorrow.
My Ilm Journey
By Farah Usman ___ Instructor The Root
By the time I was old enough to start understanding the world around me, we had moved to UAE.
And that is where my real ilm journey started.
We lived close to a mosque and my mother took me and siblings to a madrassa as a routine. She joined Al-Huda’s correspondence course which helped her on her own journey, as well as guide us.
I still remember going to the small madrassa set up inside a house, where the committed abla (teacher) as we called them, wouldn’t let us move forward till we had the perfect ع and ح. We spent days on the same surah in order to master it.
Our mum would take us to different classes, courses and halaqas in order to keep us connected to deen. By Allah’s grace, that is how I acquired my Deen Sisters as well.
It is all thanks to Allah, my parents and teachers back then that the foundation of my love for Deen was laid.
I then continued to attend various Arabic and
Tajweed courses but an emptiness remained in my heart. I earnestly wanted to go through the whole Qur’an with translation and tafseer.
Alhamdulillah, when I joined Huma Najm’s Bunyad, that emptiness was filled too, but this is just the beginning. I still have a lot more to learn, in my journey of knowledge with the Quran and Sunnah.
All of us wants happiness, but we don’t know where to find it ?
Our Teacher Sara Asif just answered the question…Right here!
Where do I find happiness….?
By Sara Asif ___ Instructor The Rope
The world today promises happiness in everything they want to sell.
According to them, if u buy a particular bag, it will make you look stylish and you will be happy.
As soon as u buy it though, it loses its charm, and you want another in a different color. Then you buy another color, design shape or brand, with the same thought, that it will give you greater pleasure than the first.
You end up buying many more with the same mindset and spending more money, thinking that the next big thing is what you always wanted but it just doesn’t give you that satisfaction that you anticipated before you bought it.
We spend our entire life wanting certain things, and we work hard for some.
We even have a wish list for some and as we tick each one off, we see that the pleasure curve hits a decline instead of going up.
It is like the “scale of diminishing returns”. It is no wonder that we witness the richest celebrities and the most influential people who have everything they can ask for, beauty, wealth, fame, still find themselves wanting more and more. These people then end up increasingly disappointed at
every curve of life. What could be the reason?
Let me tell u a secret the world doesn’t want us to know.
There is no such thing as “A Happily Ever After” in the dunya.That is only for Jannah, the Akhirah, the world after this dunya. Whoever chases lasting
happiness in dunya is chasing a mirage in a desert. You keep running to the oasis but as you get to it, you see that it was just an illusion but the thirst for the dunya keeps making you run incircles chasing something that does not exist.
This is the reality!
Happiness is an emotion, and it keeps changing, it is like a seesaw. It can never be constant and it is dependent on external things. That’s how companies thrive and make money. Every experience and product promises you pleasure but they know it won’t last and you will be back
for more.
Contentment on the other hand is a state of mind, it is a state of being, it comes from within and is independent of external influences. Thus, making it more stable and long-lasting. It doesn’t matter what we have or don’t have in this world. It doesn’t matter what we are going through in life, a content person is able to find that peace within themselves. A safe space where we can go to when we are sad, aching, in pain, grieving or just lonely.
Sometimes it is not even clear why we feel so empty.
The question then is …“How do I reach this place of contentment?”
The answer is simple. Having a deep connection with the Quran because it is a divine book that talks to you and it has all the answers and solutions to whatever the soul craves. And The soul craves only Allah. Whoever can build that connection with the Quran it promises …
Iman Ibn Taymiyyah said:
“There is a Jannah on earth, whoever hasn’t entered it will not enter it in the hereafter.”
I often ask myself this question:
Have I found this Jannah, this peaceful place inside my heart where I can find contentment, no matter what turmoil there is all around me?
Meet our team
“Guiding Souls, Mending Hearts – Our Teachers in Faith, Practical Wisdom,
and Spiritual Growth”
Sara Asif
Coordinator & Instructor
Humera Faisal
Instructor
Farah Usman
Instructor
Salah Haider
Instructor