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Books that name the disease, then show the door.

Written in English and Arabic, built on the Qur'an, the Sunnah and the classical scholars — with modern science allowed in only to serve, never to lead. Every page was worked on one heart first, then published for the ummah's, for the same cause. Nine titles below; chapter one of The Heart You Bring is free.

The Heart You Bring — hardcover
Final draft · English & Arabic · 20 chapters

The Heart You Bring

A journey to the sound heart
القلب الذي تأتي به

“You aren't where Allah invited you to be.”Nabil Imran · The Heart You Bring · Part one, The Awakening

Five parts that wake you up, diagnose, name the diseases, prescribe the cure, and walk you home. Built on the Qur'an, the Sunnah and the classical scholars — al-Ghazālī, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Taymiyyah — with cardiac research and neuroscience allowed in only to serve. Every chapter ends with a practice, not a feeling.

The AwakeningThe DiagnosisThe DiseasesThe CureThe Journey
20chapters5partsCompanion · Journey · Arabic editions
One Person One Master — hardcover
Manuscript complete · in editing · 14 chapters

One Person One Master

Ending the exhaustion of being everything to everyone

“Your notification sound is not your adhan. Your screen time is not your ‘ibadah. Your followers are not your ummah. Your metrics are not your worth.”Nabil Imran · One Person One Master · Chapter 12

For the generation raised between worlds and exhausted from being a different person in every room. Five masters you already serve — the algorithm, the grind, validation, comparison, the success myth — and the one identity that organises all the others: ʿabd Allāh, servant of the One. Diagnosis first, then the framework, then the practice: career as worship, relationships that elevate, a phone that serves instead of rules, and healing that counts as worship too. Written for seventeen to thirty, from years of listening before teaching.

The ProblemHow We Got HereThe FrameworkThe PracticeSustaining the Journey
14chapters5parts~48,000wordsEnglish
The Tafsir — hardcover
The main work · final draft in review

The Tafsir

The Qur'an explained, sūrah by sūrah — in a voice you can read aloud
التفسير

Every sūrah, passage by passage, chunked to the 1,265 topic groups of the التفصيل الموضوعي muṣḥaf, with the occasions of revelation from al-Wāḥidī and the classical commentators — al-Rāzī, Ibn Kathīr, Ibn ʿĀshūr, al-Shaʿrāwī — brought in by name. Written from the Arabic and Nabil's own translation, reviewed three times, then typeset per sūrah and bound into five volumes. Built to be read aloud from a minbar and read alone at night.

114sūrahs1,265topic groups~4.6Mwords5volumes
The Qur'an, Translated — hardcover
Complete · in audit

The Qur'an, Translated

Nabil's own English rendering

All 6,236 verses rendered afresh and grouped to the 1,265 topic groups of the muṣḥaf. Every added word is marked ˹ ˺, so the reader always knows what is text and what is help — nothing slipped in, nothing hidden.

6,236verses1,339bracket pairsEnglish, beside the Arabic
The Qur'an — Reading Edition — hardcover
Companion to the translation

The Qur'an — Reading Edition

The meaning, grouped by topic, for reading cover to cover

The same translation with the brackets and the Arabic stripped away — English only, grouped by topic — so the Qur'an can be read the way you read a book: from the first page to the last, without stopping to look anything up.

English only1,265topic groupsReads cover to cover
Look Again — hardcover
Volume one · drafting

Look Again

The Qur'an and the human interior
فَارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ

The first look: the mind, the self, the sick person, the sick society — read from the Qur'an with no inherited verse list. Named from al-Mulk 67:3, so return your gaze: the book is an invitation to look at yourself the way the Qur'an looks at you, with the best of what psychology and medicine can add, and no more.

The Instrument You Cannot Put DownThe Self That Argues With ItselfWhat the Body KeepsA Sick Society
14chaptersOriginal workEnglish
Reading El-Naggar — hardcover
Five books · drafted · working title

Reading El-Naggar

The Qur'an and the natural world — an audit in five books
ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ

A second look at a lifetime of iʿjāz ʿilmī claims, run against Zaghloul El-Naggar's own ten rules, with forty years of science he did not live to see. Where the claim holds, it is kept; where it does not, it is said plainly — because the Qur'an does not need a weak argument.

The RulesThe SkyThe EarthThe LivingThe Human
51chapters5booksEnglish
The Talks — hardcover
93 sūrah meditations · recorded

The Talks

The Tafsir Talks — sūrah meditations, spoken

Ninety-three spoken sūrah meditations, recorded alongside the writing of the tafsir. One sūrah, one sitting: what it is about, what it asks of you, and where it meets your week. The companion to the tafsir for the commute, the kitchen and the night.

93meditationsAudio · EnglishCompanion to The Tafsir
Mending the Broken — cover
A lesson · 30 minutes · taught live

Mending the Broken

Jabr al-khawāṭir — mending what is broken in people
جَبْر الخَواطِر

A thirty-minute lesson, not yet a book: why the Qur'an burned an entire garden over a heart left unmended, and what mending looks like in a home and a masjid. Taught live; available for your community.

Lesson30minutesFor masajid, schools and families
“This is not a lecture. Lectures sit on the surface. They inform the mind and leave the heart untouched. You have heard enough khutbahs. Your mind is full. Your heart may not be. This is a mirror — and every time it shows you something painful, it will also show you the door.”

— NABIL IMRAN · THE HEART YOU BRING · “A NOTE BEFORE YOU BEGIN”

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Who the books are for

For the Muslim whose mind is full and whose heart is not.

  • You pray, you attend, you know — and something still feels sealed.
  • You want the classical scholars named, not paraphrased: al-Ghazālī, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Taymiyyah, al-Rāzī, Ibn ʿĀshūr.
  • You want the science to be real science — and to stay in its place.
  • You want women of the tradition as primary evidence, not sidebars: Khadījah, Hājar, ʿĀʾishah, Maryam, Āsiyah.
  • You want a practice at the end of every chapter, not a feeling.
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Editions of The Heart You Bring

Companion edition

The full text with the practice summaries and the du'ā' collection — for reading alone.

Journey edition

The same twenty chapters set for groups: weekly reading, discussion prompts, a shared protocol. For a ḥalaqah, a masjid, or a family.

النسخة العربية · Arabic edition

Written as an Arabic original, not a translation — the same journey in the language of its sources.

Where to get them

The Heart You Bring is in its final draft; the tafsir and the translation are in review. Retail links go live at launch — the letter goes out first.

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Which book should I start with?

The Heart You Bring — it is the shortest road in, and chapter one is free above. If you want the Qur'an itself, start with the free muṣḥaf on I Live Islam and follow the letter for the translation's launch.

Are these self-help books?

No. They are built on Islamic knowledge first — the Qur'an, the Sunnah and the scholarly tradition are the authority in every chapter. Modern science appears where it serves, and is named when it does.

Do I need Arabic?

No. Every term is transliterated and explained, and each book carries its own glossary. The Arabic edition of The Heart You Bring exists for readers who want the sources in their own language.

Can I teach a book in my masjid or family?

Yes — the Journey edition of The Heart You Bring is set for exactly that, and Nabil teaches it live. Invite him.

Are the covers final?

They are concept renders for the site, made with the same image pipeline as I Live Islam. Final covers, editions and prices are announced in the letter.