In December 2025, my travels took me to a unique destination, Lombok Island in Indonesia. This land was very different from anywhere I had traveled before. I had not even heard about Lombok until a few weeks before I arrived there. I was in Kuala Lumpur with my family, planning a family trip to a…
During my adventures, I have traveled twice to Istanbul. Both trips were a year apart and served very different purposes. When we decided that we need to leave in 2021, we were deep in a pandemic/lockdown, and travel was not possible. During this period, however, many people I knew had moved to Istanbul as Türkiye…
In December 2024, I decided to travel to Doha to check it out as a potential Hijrah location. There were many reasons I chose Doha, it is a Muslim country with a strong economy, it is safe peaceful land without any crime or political instability, there are direct flights to Doha from my home country,…
Four years ago, I made intention to leave South Africa with my family and migrate to a Muslim land. At the time, my family were unable to travel due to paperwork issues, so I decided to scout ahead and travel to various Muslim lands seeking out a potential hijrah destination. Alhamdulillah, now we are living…
We previously discussed how to overcome common fears related to Hijrah. Hijrah is an act of worship, but it is also an act of tawakul. It is a leap of faith in which a person steps into the unknown for the sake of Allah, trusting that whatever is best for them will happen. Taking a…