The light of the day · Tuesday 13 October
Your morning coffee has Sufi roots
Coffee spread through the world from 15th-century Yemen, where Sufis in Mocha drank qahwa to stay awake for night devotion. From their gatherings it reached Makkah, Cairo, Istanbul, and eventually every café on earth.
Yemen · 15th century
Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 1 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · Belief
الاِسْتِغَاثَة
Istighathah
Calling for help, and the disputed question of whom a Muslim may call on when it is not Allah.
Everyone agrees that asking a present living person for help within their ability is ordinary and permitted, and that asking anyone at all for what only Allah can give is shirk. The dispute is narrower than it sounds: calling on an absent or deceased prophet or righteous person. Many Sufi and traditional scholars read it as a request for that person's prayer and permit it, while Hanbali and Salafi scholarship reads…
The Path · chapter 13 of 71
القصر والسجن
Yusuf: Well, Palace & Prison
Beauty tested by desire. Yusuf chose prison over sin.
Purity is not the absence of desire but the presence of the proof of the Lord
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