The Both Worlds letter · free · weekly

One letter a week on living well in both worlds.

Named from the du'āʾ in al-Baqarah 2:201 — رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً — the letter takes one verse a week and reads it with both eyes open: what the scholars said, what the science now shows, and one thing to do before Friday.

• The verse — in Arabic and in a translation you can trust, with the source named
• The scholars — al-Ghazālī, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn ʿĀshūr, by name, from the tafsir Nabil is writing
• The science — where medicine, neuroscience or psychology has caught up, and where it hasn't — from a physician who never stopped seeking
• The practice — one thing, small enough to do tonight
• What shipped — a chapter, a khutbah, an Academy season, when there is one