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Ibn Sina Sanctuary, London (2026)

15/04/2026

We introduced you to Ibn Sina - the man who named this practice.

He believed that every person is born with a specific temperament. A constitutional nature that shapes how you feel, how you love, how you worship and how you fall apart.
In Islamic medicine, this is called mizaj.

Today we built something on that foundation. (it’s pretty cool)

Mizaj is a free quiz that helps you discover your temperament type, rooted in over a thousand years of Islamic medicine and updated with contemporary psychology. It takes five minutes. What it gives you is a language for yourself: for why you function the way you do, why you struggle the way you struggle and why you restore the way you restore.

Take yours now. Link in bio or go directly to mizaj.space

14/04/2026

Your body is not overreacting.
The tension that won’t leave your shoulders. The stomach that tightens before you even know you’re anxious. The exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The way your chest closes in certain rooms with certain people.
That is not weakness.

That is your body doing exactly what it was designed to do, holding what your mind has not yet had the space to process.

Ibn Sina understood this a thousand years ago. The soul and the body are not separate systems. What the soul carries, the body expresses. Modern neuroscience has spent decades catching up to what Islamic medicine already knew.

The work of therapy is learning to read what your body has been trying to tell you. And finally giving it somewhere to put it down.

If you are ready for that, our therapists are here. Link in bio.

10/04/2026

Most people know the name Avicenna. That is the Latinised version, the one Europe used when they borrowed his knowledge and quietly forgot where it came from.

His real name was Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn AbdAllah ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali Ibn Sina. Born in 980 CE near Bukhara.

By 10 he was a hafidh.
By 13 he was studying medicine.
By 16 he was a practising physician.
By 18 he had outgrown every teacher he had ever had.
His Canon of Medicine became the primary medical textbook in European universities and stayed there for over 600 years.

He wrote about anxiety, grief and obsessive thinking as conditions that could be clinically understood and treated. He understood that what the soul carries, the body expresses. That you cannot treat one without the other.

We named this practice after him because he understood what we believe.
Healing that ignores the soul is incomplete.

06/04/2026

Anger gets a bad reputation in our community.

We are told to suppress it. Swallow it. Make du’a until it passes. And most people who sit in our therapy rooms have spent years doing exactly that.

But suppressed anger does not disappear. It calcifies.
It becomes chronic anxiety, or passive aggression, or a grey numbness that people describe as feeling nothing at all. The feeling did not go anywhere. It just went underground.

What the Prophet ﷺ taught was not the destruction of anger. He taught mastery over its expression. “The strong person is not one who overcomes others. The strong person is one who controls themselves when angry.” That is a completely different instruction. Feel it but Do not be ruled by it.

In therapy, the first thing we do with anger is name it accurately. Not “I was a bit frustrated.” Angry. Furious. Livid. Most people have been so trained to minimise their anger that they cannot even locate it correctly. And you cannot work with something you will not name.
The second thing we do is ask what it is protecting. Anger almost never travels alone. Underneath it there is usually hurt, or fear, or a boundary that has been crossed so many times the person stopped believing it was real. The anger is not the problem. It is the signal.

What has your anger been trying to tell you that you have not been willing to hear?

If this is something you are ready to explore properly, our therapists hold space for exactly this. Link in bio.

05/04/2026

Nobody talks about what happens to your soul in Shawwal

Everyone prepares you for Ramadan. Nobody prepares you for the week after and you usually crash very hard. The structure is gone. The collective energy has lifted. You are back in your ordinary life but you are not the same person who entered Ramadan, and that gap between who you were and who you briefly became is genuinely disorienting. That is what you are feeling right now.

Scholars have long written about this. Ibn al-Qayyim described the period after intense worship as a moment of reckoning, where the soul either consolidates what it gained or slowly releases it. Shawwal is not a return to normal. It is a test of whether the change was real.

The six fasts of Shawwal exist precisely because of this. They are not an obligation. They are an invitation to hold on.

Psychologically, what is happening is also real. Your nervous system spent 30 days in a regulated, structured rhythm. That structure is now gone and your brain is doing exactly what brains do: looking for the next stimulus, returning to old patterns, interpreting the flatness as failure.

It is not failure. It is the work continuing, just without the scaffolding.

So here is what we ask clients who come to us in this exact moment: what is one thing Ramadan showed you about yourself that you want to keep? Not a habit. Not a routine. One true thing. Hold that. Build from there.

If Ramadan surfaced something you are not ready to carry alone, our therapists are here. Link in bio.

19/03/2026

Eid Mubarak from the Ibn Sina Sanctuary family.

However your Ramadan looked this year, you made it. May Allah accept your fasting, your prayers, your tears, and the effort only He could see.

Wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful Eid.

Taqabbal Allahu minna wa minkum.

19/03/2026

Eid Mubarak from the Ibn Sina Sanctuary family.

However your Ramadan looked this year, you made it. May Allah accept your fasting, your prayers, your tears, and the effort only He could see.

Wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful Eid.

Taqabbal Allahu minna wa minkum.

❤️

17/03/2026

This was your Ramadan. All of it.

The good nights and the empty ones. The tears that came easily and the ones that would not come at all. The prayers that felt like conversations and the ones that felt like nothing.

The days you showed up with everything and the days you barely showed up at all. The guilt. The gratitude. The confusion. The quiet moments at 3am when it was just you and Him.

None of it was wasted. Every single part of it was seen by the One who sees everything.

And tonight is your last odd night. This could still be it. So give it everything you have left. Every dua. Every tear. Every whisper. Leave nothing for tomorrow.

May Allah accept it from you. All of it.

15/03/2026

“I found this service at the lowest point of my life.”

Tonight could be Laylatul Qadr.
A single deed worth more than a thousand months.
Your donation tonight goes towards the service that was there when this person had nowhere else to turn.

Towards therapy. Towards technology. Towards education.
Towards making sure the next person who reaches out finds something on the other end.

Put it towards someone’s healing

👉 Link in bio

14/03/2026

5 days left. You are tired. Keep going.

Allah does not measure your Ramadan by how impressive it looked. He measures it by the fact that you did not give up.

The prayers you dragged yourself to at 3am when every part of you wanted to sleep. The fasts you held even when your body begged you to stop. The dua you whispered even when you were not sure anyone was listening.

All of it counted. All of it was seen.

5 more days. You have got this.

12/03/2026

The dua the Prophet ﷺ taught us for the most powerful night of the year does not ask for success, wealth, or status. It asks for one thing: pardon.

Allahumma innaka afuwwun tuhibbul afwa fa’fu anni.
O Allah, You are pardoning and You love to pardon, so pardon me.

There is a deep psychological wisdom in this. On the night when you could ask for anything, you are guided to ask for release. Not achievement. Not reward. Just: let me be forgiven. Let me be free from the weight of what I carry.

The soul’s deepest need is not accomplishment. It is to be accepted as it is.

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