Thursday, January 8, 2026

Begin with Yourself

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

Allah says:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ

“O you who believe, save yourselves and your families from the Fire...” (Surah at-Tahrim 66:6)

This is about priorities. We often exhaust ourselves over global problems we cannot control while neglecting the crises inside our own homes. Allah will not ask us why we failed to change the world. He will ask what we did with ourselves, our salah, our character, our children, and our homes.

Ibrahim (peace be upon him) could not change his people, yet Allah called him a nation unto himself—because he fulfilled his responsibility with steadfastness.

The individual and the family are the foundation of the community. Corruption begins within the self, then the home, before it spreads to society. The fire of the Hereafter is fueled by fires ignited in this world—fear, toxicity, and spiritual neglect.

Our youth are facing an identity crisis rooted in fear, anxiety, and broken family environments. Shayṭan’s greatest success is destroying families, because a child raised in fear and conflict carries that damage into the ummah.

Divorce is not the enemy. Toxicity is. Islam does not require remaining in oppressive or irreparable marriages. What harms children most is not whether their parents are together or apart—it is ongoing conflict, hostility, and toxicity, whether within marriage or after separation.

Save yourself. Save your family. That is where reform begins.

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