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I’m not sure who needs to read this, but what you are going through right now will not last forever. A day may come when you sleep without the same weight on your chest. You may see Du‘as answered that you once wondered would ever be answered. And you may look back and recognise ways Allah was taking care of you that you simply could not see while you were in the middle of it. But until then, remember this: Allah sees what you are going through. He sees the tears that nobody else thinks much of. He knows the thoughts that keep you awake at night. He knows the things you desperately wish you could change but cannot. And He hears the Du‘as you have made so many times that you almost feel tired of repeating them. Do not think they have gone unheard. Allah is Al-Mujeeb. He has not forgotten you. And the answer to Du‘a does not always arrive in the form we were expecting. The Prophet ﷺ taught that when a Muslim makes a Du‘a that contains neither sin nor the severing of family ties, Allah gives him one of three things: He hastens the answer for him, stores it for him in the Akhirah, or averts from him an equivalent harm. (Musnad Ahmad 11133) So even if you cannot yet see what Allah is doing through the delay, your Du‘a is not lost with Him. Allah ﷻ says: فَإِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ﴿٥﴾ إِنَّ مَعَ الْعُسْرِ يُسْرًا ﴿٦﴾ “For indeed, with hardship comes ease. Indeed, with hardship comes ease.” (Surah ash-Sharh 94:5–6) Notice the wording. Allah does not only tell you that ease comes after hardship. He tells you that with hardship is ease. What you can see right now is the difficulty. What you cannot see may be the doors Allah is opening, the harms He is keeping away from you, the strength He is building in you, and the ease He is preparing in ways you do not yet recognise. Ya‘qub عليه السلام spent years grieving for Yusuf, not knowing when relief would come. Yet even in that grief, he said: قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَشْكُو بَثِّي وَحُزْنِي إِلَى اللَّهِ وَأَعْلَمُ مِنَ اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ “I only complain of my suffering and my grief to Allah, and I know from Allah that which you do not know.” (Surah Yusuf 12:86) And after years of separation, Allah reunited them in a way Ya‘qub could never have imagined. So do not measure Allah’s care for you by how easy your life feels today. Keep making Du‘a. Keep praying. Keep turning back to Him. And when the waiting becomes hard, remember the words of Ibn ‘Ata’illah رحمه الله: “Do not let the delay in what you have asked for, despite your persistence in Du‘a, cause you to despair. He has guaranteed you a response in what He chooses for you, not what you choose for yourself, and at the time He wills, not the time you desire.” (Al-Hikam al-Ata’iyyah, Hikmah 6) Perhaps one day you will look back at the very thing that keeps you awake tonight and understand something you cannot understand now. And perhaps you will find yourself saying: "Alhamdulillah that Allah chose for me better than I could have chosen for myself." Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

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If you keep missing Fajr, you should be worried about it. Not because accidentally sleeping through an alarm makes you a hypocrite. But if Fajr keeps being lost because of habits you know you need to change, that should concern you. The Prophet ﷺ said: “No prayer is heavier upon the hypocrites than Fajr and ‘Isha. If they knew what was in them, they would come to them even if they had to crawl.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 657; Sahih Muslim 651b) That should make any Muslim who keeps allowing Fajr to slip away stop and think. We wake up for flights. For work. For exams. We wake up when there is money to be made. But when Allah calls us, suddenly we are “too tired.” If you genuinely struggle with Fajr, do not spend every morning feeling guilty and then live the next night exactly the same way. Change something. Here are 10 practical things you can start doing tonight: 1 - Fix your night before trying to fix your morning. If you sleep at 1:30 AM every night because of Netflix, YouTube, gaming, or scrolling, then struggling with Fajr should not surprise you. The Prophet ﷺ disliked sleeping before ‘Isha and talking after it. (Sahih al-Bukhari 568) You may not need another alarm app. You may simply need to put your phone down and sleep. 2 - Give yourself a proper bedtime. Work backwards from Fajr. If you need to wake at 5:00 AM and your body needs seven hours of sleep, then your bedtime cannot be “whenever I feel tired.” It is around 10:00 PM. Treat it with the seriousness you would give an important appointment. 3 - Sleep intending to wake for Fajr. Before you sleep, remind yourself why you are going to bed: I am resting so I can wake up and worship Allah. Let your last thoughts be about standing before your Lord in the morning, not whatever happened to be on your screen. 4 - Put your alarm away from your bed. Do not leave it beside your pillow where you can silence it without even opening your eyes. Put it somewhere that makes you stand up. And once you are standing, do not start negotiating with yourself. No “five more minutes.” No checking notifications. Bathroom. Wudu. Salah. 5 - Prepare for Fajr before you sleep. Check the Fajr time. Set more than one alarm if you need to. Prepare your clothes. If you are a man praying at the Masjid, know the Iqamah time and have everything ready. Remove the excuses before you go to bed. Look at how seriously the Salaf treated catching the prayer from its beginning. Muhammad ibn Sama‘ah رحمه الله said: “For forty years, I did not miss the first Takbir except the day my mother died.” (Siyar A‘lam an-Nubala’ 10/646) We struggle to catch the prayer. They worried about catching the first Takbir. 6 - Stop making the snooze button part of your morning. Your alarm should mean one thing: Get up. Every time you snooze it, you teach yourself that the alarm does not really mean anything yet. Alarm → stand → light on → Wudu. Make that your sequence. 7 - Look at what you do before sleeping. Do not underestimate what your night does to your morning. If the last hour before bed is spent in sins, useless entertainment, and endless scrolling, then do not be surprised when waking for obedience feels heavy. The Salaf feared that sins could deprive a person of acts of worship. So if Fajr keeps becoming difficult, do not only inspect your alarm. Inspect your life. 8 - Make Du‘a before sleeping. Ask Allah sincerely: “O Allah, allow me to wake up and stand before You for Fajr.” You can buy the loudest alarm available, put your phone across the room, and sleep eight hours. But Tawfiq is from Allah. Take the means. Then ask Him to help you. 9 - Give yourself something to do after Fajr. Do not make your entire plan: Wake up → pray → get straight back into bed. Build a small routine around Fajr. Pray. Read Qur’an for ten minutes. Make your morning Adhkar. Read. Study. Plan your day. Let Fajr become the beginning of your morning, not something interrupting your sleep. 10 - Change the way you think about Salah. The Salaf did not treat Salah as something they had to squeeze into their lives. Their lives were built around it. Abu al-‘Aliyah رحمه الله said: “I would travel for days to a man to hear from him. The first thing I would examine was his Salah. If I found him establishing and completing it properly, I would remain and listen to him. But if I found him neglecting it, I would return without listening to him, and I would say: ‘He will be even more neglectful of other matters.’” (Hilyat al-Awliya’ 2/220) That is how seriously they viewed Salah. So do not only say: “I struggle with Fajr.” Ask yourself: "What am I willing to change so that I stop missing it?" Because one morning, your alarm may ring and you will not wake up. Your family may try to wake you and you will not answer. People may pray Fajr without you, and later that same day they may pray over you. And then all those nights spent scrolling will look worthless. Those extra minutes of sleep will mean nothing. The bed that felt impossible to leave will one day be replaced by a grave you cannot leave until Allah raises you again. So when the alarm rings tomorrow and your eyes feel heavy, remember: It is not just your phone making a sound. Allah has given you another morning. Another Fajr. Another chance to put your forehead on the ground and say: Allahu Akbar. Get up. You do not know how many or few Fajr prayers you have left. Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

Ibn Mandhoor, the author of the great dictionary Lisan al-'Arab, said: "Allah honoured this Arabic language above every other language through its clarity, and it is sufficient honour for it that the Qur’an was revealed in it." 💻 https://www.amauacademy.com/pages/arabic

INTRODUCING: A PRODUCTIVITY SERIES FOR MUSLIMS! You can work hard. Keep ticking things off your to-do list. ✅ And still look back and realise you didn't achieve as much as you'd expected. ⏳ So what does true productivity look like through an Islamic lens? And how do you actually become a productive Muslim? ⚙️ This brand-new series with Sheikh Muhammad Tim Humble will tackle exactly that, and much more, bi’idhnillah. ▶️ Watch Episode 1 now: https://youtu.be/F_MtzSKyghg

If you’ve been saying, “I want to memorise the Qur’an” for years but still haven’t properly started, this is for you. Maybe the problem is not your memory. It may not even be your age. Nor your children, your job, or your schedule. Perhaps you are simply making the whole thing bigger in your head than it needs to be, while underestimating how much can be done with the small pockets of time Allah has already given you. Try something I call the 1 for 30 method. Start with the Qur’an. 1 Ayah a day for 30 consecutive days. That’s it. Not a page. Not half a page. Not even five Ayat. One. Make that one Ayah your minimum. Then start looking for the small pockets of time already sitting inside your day. For example, if you pray at the Masjid, try reaching before the Adhan. Use the time between the Adhan and Iqamah to memorise. You can easily get 10–15 minutes. Do that around each Salah and you can easily gain at least 50 minutes across the day. You do not always need to find a new hour. Sometimes you just need to stop losing the ten minutes you already have. If you complete 30 consecutive days, move to 2 Ayat a day for the next 30. If you cannot stay consistent with 2, return to 1 for another 30 days. But keep the habit alive. This gradual approach is not something strange to our tradition. ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud رضي الله عنه said: “When a man amongst us learned ten verses, he would not move on until he had understood their meanings and how to act by them.” (At-Tabari, at-Tafsir 1/80) They were not obsessed with how quickly they could finish a Surah or a Juz. They cared about learning properly, acting upon what they learnt, and continuing. Use the same principle when seeking Islamic knowledge. Be honest about your current level. Find a structured, self-paced programme that suits you, such as ‘Ilm with AMAU, and give it: 10 minutes a day for 30 days. Nothing more is required at the beginning. If you manage 30 consecutive days, increase it to 15 minutes. If 15 becomes too difficult to maintain, go back to 10. It is reported that ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak رحمه الله said: “The pursuit of knowledge is not complete except with four things: free time, wealth, memorisation and Wara‘.” (Shu‘ab al-Iman 1602) Sometimes we keep saying we have no time while ten minutes disappear here, fifteen minutes there, and hours are lost across the week without us noticing. A busy mother can find 10 minutes. A CEO can find 10 minutes. A 60-year-old can find 10 minutes. A teenager with school can find 10 minutes. And most of us can memorise one Ayah today. The Prophet ﷺ said: “The most beloved deeds to Allah are those that are most consistent, even if they are few.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 6465; Sahih Muslim 783) So stop designing the perfect Qur’an schedule that you never follow. Stop planning what the next five years of seeking knowledge will look like while doing nothing today. 1 Ayah. 10 minutes (at the very least). 30 days. Then build from there. You do not need to prove today that you can memorise the entire Qur’an. You do not need to prove today that you can become a serious student of knowledge. For now, prove that you can show up for Allah every single day for the next 30 days. A year from now, you may realise that the problem was never that you had no time. You were waiting to do something big. When what you really needed was to start small and refuse to stop. Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

Semester Two of Ilm with AMAU is here! New books. New subjects. And a deeper level of study begins. 📚 We start where everything begins: Tawheed. ☝️ But this time, the question is not simply what do you believe? It is: What is your evidence? How does it prove the point? And how firmly is what you believe rooted in revelation? 🎓 The first lessons of Kitab at-Tawheed with Sheikh Abubakar al-Khalafi have now been released. And over the weeks ahead, Aqeedah will be joined by Fiqh, Tafseer and Hadith as Semester Two unfolds. ✨ The next stage of Ilm with AMAU begins! ▶️ Start Semester Two: https://www.amauacademy.com/categories/semester-2-ilm-with-amau

🔵 Got Questions About the Evil Eye, Magic, Jinn Possession or Ruqyah? Our first-ever Ruqyah with AMAU Live Q&A with Sheikh Muhammad Tim Humble starts in about 2 HOURS! Bring your questions and get them answered by a specialist. Get advice on how to seek cure from Allah through the Qur’an and Sunnah, strengthen your Iman, and stop letting fear of Jinn and magic take over your mind. Not studying the course? You can still join! It’s open to ALL. 🔗 Register NOW and set a reminder: https://www.amauacademy.com/programs/live-with-amau-050926?category_id=293626

Are You Blindly Defending Your Favourite Speaker? There is something we need to be careful of. A speaker says something clearly wrong. Evidence is brought. Scholars address the mistake. But instead of asking, “What do the Qur’an and Sunnah say?”, people immediately respond: “So should I ignore all the good he has done?” “Why are you attacking him?” “They’re only criticising him because they’re jealous of his following.” And sometimes our attachment to a person becomes so strong that we end up defending a mistake we would have condemned immediately had someone else said the exact same thing. That is dangerous. Our loyalty is not to personalities. It is to the truth. Allah ﷻ says: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ ۖ فَإِن تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ إِن كُنتُمْ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَحْسَنُ تَأْوِيلًا “O you who believe, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. If you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and best in outcome.” (Surah an-Nisa’ 4:59) Look at where Allah tells us to return when we disagree. Not to whichever speaker we love most, or whoever has the biggest following, or even someone we have benefited from for twenty years. We return to Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. Imam Malik رحمه الله famously said: “Everyone's statement may be accepted or rejected except the occupant of this grave,” referring to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. (Siyar A'lam an-Nubala' 8/93) None of this means becoming disrespectful towards scholars. A scholar can make an error in a matter of Ijtihad. We preserve his honour, recognise his knowledge, and do not turn every disagreement into an attack on his character. But respecting a scholar does not mean convincing ourselves that he cannot be wrong. If someone clearly contradicts established Islamic principles, and trustworthy scholars explain the mistake with evidence, you do not need to become his defence team simply because you love him or have benefited from him. Listen to what is being said. Look at the evidence as far as you are able. Ask trustworthy people of knowledge when you do not know. Then follow what the evidence supports, even when it goes against the person you feel attached to. Even Abu Bakr and ‘Umar رضي الله عنهما, the two greatest men of this Ummah after the Prophet ﷺ, were never to be followed in opposition to an authentic statement of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. So what about the speakers and personalities of our time? Love your scholars. Benefit from them. Defend them when they are lied about or attacked unjustly. Make Du‘a for them when they make mistakes. But never let your love for a person become stronger than your love for the truth. Scholars guide us to the Qur’an and Sunnah. They were never meant to replace them. Today, it may be one statement you find yourself defending because you love the speaker. Then another issue comes along. And if you are not careful, somewhere along the way the question changes. You stop asking: “What is the evidence?” And start asking: “How can I defend this person?” That is when attachment becomes dangerous. No scholar, speaker, teacher, group, or personality deserves blind allegiance. Our unconditional submission belongs to Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib رضي الله عنه said: “Truth and falsehood are not known by the status of men. Know the truth and you will know its people, and know falsehood and you will know those who follow it.” (Ansab al-Ashraf 2/274) Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

🏆 The August Leaderboards Are In! One month. Hundreds of lessons. Countless hours spent learning. Take a look at the students who stood out on our August Leaderboards: 📚 AMAU Academy: https://www.amauacademy.com/pages/leaderboard 🎓 AMAU Junior: https://amaujunior.com/pages/leaderboard Seeking knowledge takes effort. Staying consistent takes even more. Allah ﷻ says: “So for this let the competitors compete.” (Surah Al-Muṭaffifīn, 83:26) The race for knowledge is one worth joining. Do you want to be a part of it too?

Think about your last activity on social media. What did you watch? What did you like? What did you save, or archive? Sheikh Dr. Asim al-Qaryooti shares a reminder that might change how you look at all of it. ▶️ Watch now: https://youtu.be/ecwlQ5Q0UYU

One of our AMAU mentors recently shared an interesting observation: The top-performing students under our mentorship track are those who don't have social media at all. That should make us think. We often hear: “I really want to seek knowledge, but I just don't have the time.” But is it really that you don't have time? Or is your time simply going somewhere else? How many hours disappear every week into Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, WhatsApp statuses and endless scrolling? Allah ﷻ says: وَالْعَصْرِ ﴿١﴾ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ ﴿٢﴾ “By time. Indeed, mankind is in loss.” (Surah al-`Asr 103:1–2) The Prophet ﷺ said: “There are two blessings in which many people suffer loss: health and free time.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 6412) It is reported from Hasan al-Basri رحمه الله: “Son of Adam, you are nothing but days. Whenever a day passes, a part of you passes away.” (Hilyat al-Awliya' 2/148) Social media isn't necessarily Haram. But something doesn't have to be Haram to steal years of your life. If you are serious about seeking Islamic knowledge, memorising the Qur'an and growing in your religion, check your screen time before saying you don't have time. Maybe the problem isn't that you don't have enough time to seek knowledge. Maybe you've given too much of it to things that don't matter. Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

A Weekend That Will Raise Your Iman Three days. Three lectures. Plenty of knowledge to take home. This weekend in Dubai, join Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble and Ustadh Muhammad Huzaifah for three lectures to help you know your Deen better. 🕋 The Beautiful Names of Allah 📅 Friday, 4th September — After Maghrib 📍 Mirdif Grand Mosque – Mirdif Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/amxJ5oGX3TxScdVU7 💡 How to Be a Productive Muslim 📅 Sunday, 6th September — After Maghrib 📍 Masjid Shaikha Ali – Dubai Silicon Oasis Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XohTHPE724B8yHCB8 📖 How to Become From the People of the Quran 📅 Sunday, 6th September — After Isha 📍 Masjid Shaikha Ali – Dubai Silicon Oasis Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/XohTHPE724B8yHCB8 Bring your family and friends and make the most of the weekend! 🌿

Every person reading this has something in their life that someone, somewhere, is begging Allah for right now. You may complain about not getting enough sleep at night because of your kids, while somewhere another person is awake at night making Du'a to Allah for a child. Your work leaves you exhausted. But there is someone who has spent months searching for a job, asking Allah to open just one door. Your home feels too small. Another family is making Du‘a for a place they can simply call their own. Your spouse gets on your nerves sometimes, while someone else cries in Sujud asking Allah to bless them with a righteous spouse. You become frustrated with your parents. Someone who just buried their mother or father would give almost anything just to hear their voice once more. You look in the mirror and focus on everything you dislike about your body. Meanwhile, someone lies in a hospital bed with plastic tubes and a bag collecting their urine, asking Allah to let them walk outside again. Even the responsibilities that overwhelm you may be the very responsibilities another person is begging Allah to give them. And perhaps one of the greatest blessings of all: You know Allah. You can make Wudu. You can stand and pray. You can open the Qur’an. You can say Astaghfirullah. You can raise your hands at any moment and speak to your Lord. Allah ﷻ says: وَإِن تَعُدُّوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَا ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ “And if you should count the favours of Allah, you could not enumerate them. Indeed, Allah is Al-Ghafoor, Ar-Raheem.” (Surah an-Nahl 16:18) It is reported from ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz رحمه الله: “Secure the blessings of Allah through gratitude to Allah.” (Shu‘ab al-Iman 4546) Sometimes we become so consumed by the blessing we are waiting for that we stop seeing how much Allah has already given us. Parts of the life you complain about today may be the exact things someone else cries for in Tahajjud. That does not mean you cannot ask Allah for more. It does not mean you should stop dreaming bigger or working to improve your situation. Ask Him. Work for it. Try to make things better. But never let what is missing make you blind to what is already there. Tonight, before you ask Allah for something new, spend a few moments thanking Him for what He has already given you. It could be that one of the Du'as you made years ago is the life you are complaining about today. Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com

It is easy to talk about Sabr when life is going well. But some of the Salaf were tested with losses we would struggle even to imagine. Yet they did not lose their Iman with them. Bilal Ibn Rabah. Umm Sulaym. ʿUrwah Ibn az-Zubayr. Abu Qilabah. What did they understand about Sabr that we don't realise? ▶️ Watch Episode 3 of Stories from the Golden Generations with Sheikh Muhammad Tim Humble: https://youtu.be/T70HxV9PZXE

Have you ever said “yes” when everything inside you wanted to say “no” simply because you were afraid of upsetting someone? You agreed because you did not want them to think badly of you. You stayed quiet to avoid an argument. You changed your decision because people started talking. You kept explaining yourself because you wanted so badly to be understood. And sometimes, you may even have compromised something you knew Allah would not be pleased with, just to keep someone else pleased with you. That is an exhausting way to live. Allah ﷻ says: يَحْلِفُونَ بِاللَّهِ لَكُمْ لِيُرْضُوكُمْ وَاللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَحَقُّ أَن يُرْضُوهُ إِن كَانُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ “They swear by Allah to you in order to please you. But Allah and His Messenger are more deserving of being pleased, if they are believers.” (Surah at-Tawbah 9:62) There is nothing wrong with wanting people to be happy with you. We should be kind. We should care about people’s feelings. We should fulfil their rights. But there is a line. And you cross it when keeping people happy begins to cost you your relationship with Allah. The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever seeks the pleasure of Allah despite the displeasure of people, Allah will be pleased with him and cause the people to be pleased with him.” (Sahih Ibn Hibban 276) ‘Aishah رضي الله عنها wrote to Mu‘awiyah رضي الله عنه with the same principle: “Whoever seeks Allah’s pleasure despite the displeasure of people, Allah will suffice him from the people. And whoever seeks the people’s pleasure at the cost of Allah’s displeasure, Allah will leave him to the people.” (Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi 2414) Think about how much of our anxiety comes from carrying something Allah never asked us to carry. Needing everyone to understand us. To approve of us. To make sure no one is upset with us. You cannot do it. People will misunderstand you. Some will be disappointed. Some will talk. And some may walk away. But imagine reaching the end of your life having spent years trying to keep everyone around you pleased, only to realise that somewhere along the way, you stopped asking the one question that mattered most: Is Allah pleased with me? That is the loss to be afraid of. Be kind to people. Love them. Serve them. Forgive them. Fulfil their rights. But do not spend your life chasing people’s approval while neglecting the One who controls their hearts. One day, all of it will fall away. The praise. The criticism. The approval. The disappointment. You will stand before Allah alone. And on that Day, there is only one approval you will wish you had lived for: His. Team AMAU www.amauacademy.com