The light of the day · Thursday 29 October
A woman built the instruments that read the sky
In tenth-century Aleppo, Mariam al-Ijliya made astrolabes, the finest navigation and timekeeping instruments of the age, and served the city's court as a celebrated maker. Her father had been an astrolabe maker before her; she was known for designs of unusual intricacy.
Aleppo · 10th century
Thursday 29 October 2026 · 17 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · History
الهِجْرَةُ إِلَى الحَبَشَة
Hijrah to Abyssinia
The first migration, when persecuted Muslims fled Makkah to a Christian king in Abyssinia.
It happened in two waves, years before the move to Madinah. The Prophet sent them to the Negus, whom he described as a king under whom nobody is wronged. Quraysh sent envoys with gifts to demand them back; Ja'far ibn Abi Talib answered by describing what they had been and what Islam made of them, then recited from Surah Maryam, and the king wept and refused to hand them over. Some stayed until after Khaybar.
The Path · chapter 50 of 71
خلافة علي
Ali: Wisdom in the Storm
The gate of knowledge governing through the ummah's bitterest years, judging brothers at war by the Book, and falling at Fajr in Ramadan.
The Qur'an pre-wrote the rules for believers at war: both sides remain brothers
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