Stories of value,
straight from revelation.
Short, designed stories that take an everyday moment (a growing child, a fading sunset, a quiet habit) and read it through the Qur'an & Hadith. Made to pause over, save, and share.
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No. 10Bumi pun enggan: the scribe who said he wrote the Qur'an
He memorised Al-Baqarah and Ali 'Imran and was trusted to write down revelation. Then he left Islam and told people the Prophet knew nothing but what he had written for him. Three times his people buried him, and three mornings the earth cast him out. A story from Sahih al-Bukhari on the guarding of the Qur'an, and on knowledge that does not keep a heart safe.
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No. 09Sehari atau separuh: how long did you stay on earth?
In 1962 Michel Siffre spent two months in a cave with no clock and came out believing almost a month less had passed. The Qur'an records the same drift at a scale no cave can reach: asked how many years they lived, people will answer a day, or part of a day. The sleepers of the cave said it, the man raised after a century said it, and so will we.
Read the story →Earlier in the series
No. 08Empat penjuru: the two directions he never claimed
Iblis swore to come from the front, from behind, from the right and from the left: fear of the future, the chain to yesterday, pride wearing the uniform of goodness, and appetite that numbs the heart. Every direction he named runs flat along the ground. He said nothing about above and below.
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No. 07Tempat kita lari: when distraction becomes the hiding place
At-Takathur opens on alhakum, not on the accumulation. People reach for distraction when there is something they would rather not sit with, and it numbs without healing. Then comes the one place where every distraction runs out and the eyes have nowhere left to turn.
Read the story →Further back
No. 06Berat bukan banyak: the only scale that survives the day
Al-Qari'ah asks what actually has weight. At-Takathur catches us counting instead. Four surahs in a row swing the camera between the Hereafter and the life we are living now, until the mountains lose their mass and only the mizan is left standing.
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No. 05Musim gelap: the well, the prison, the throne
Yusuf's story is a map for anyone in a dark, lonely or unfair season. To the eye it looked like ruin; in the divine calculation it was preparation. The isolation was not abandonment: it was extraction, until the heart anchored on the Giver alone.
Read the story →From the early days
No. 04Angan-angan panjang: and the nearest line is always death
The Prophet ﷺ drew a square, a man inside it, and his hopes stretching out beyond. We chase the world (building, saving, raising children) and the nearest line arrives mid-plan. What we fill our days with is what decides the eternal home.
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No. 03Sakaratul maut: the first door to the hereafter
The closest thing to every one of us, yet the one we forget the most. What the throes of death really are, why they come for everyone, and the preparation the scholars quietly left behind.
Read the story →Near the start
No. 02Penat yang berbaloi: where is your striving taking you?
Allah chose the word 'kadih': to toil, to struggle, to wear yourself out. Life is tiring for everyone. The real question isn't whether the road is hard. It's where all that tiredness is carrying us.
Read the story →Where it began
No. 01Tahap demi tahap: the change we never notice
Why the biggest changes in our lives almost always happen without us noticing, and what the twilight sky, the gathering night, and the slowly-filling moon are quietly trying to teach us.
Read the story →In the works
Building the series“So remind, if the reminder benefits.” And so the work is to keep telling these stories, one moment at a time.