Muraqabah · a practice of presence
Once or twice a day, unannounced, Ousama's voice asks you one question: where is your heart right now? The practice the scholars called muraqabah, in a form your pocket understands.
Presence checks, free forever · Created by Ousama Alshurafa
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Yaqzah does exactly one thing, and it does it when you least expect it.
How present you actually were.
Before a single word.
Not a text notification.
The part that changes you.
The diagnosis
Hours pass. Tasks close. The day gets done, and He never once crossed your mind. It isn't sin. It's sleepwalking, and it's where most of a life quietly disappears.
The moment the sleeper realizes he was asleep. Ibn al-Qayyim placed it first on the entire path to Allah, before repentance, before everything. Nothing begins until you wake.
Yaqzah lives in the gap between the two, and keeps pulling you back to the second.
How a presence check works
No schedule you can predict. The check arrives mid-scroll, mid-meeting, mid-dunya, landing in exactly the moments where ghaflah lives. You never see it coming. That is the entire point.
Before a single word, the screen asks only that you breathe. Three times, each one reaching wider than the last. He is closer to you than that breath.
Not a text notification. Ousama speaks, and his words appear in time with his voice: the Qur'an's framing and a modern jolt, aimed at the exact place your heart wandered off to.
Astaghfirullah three times, not for a sin, but for the hours He wasn't on your mind. Then His name, three times: press and hold, and let the ending run all the way out with your breath.
Where was your heart when this arrived? No judgment on the answer. The honesty itself is the practice. · Present حاضر · Drifting شارد · Heedless غافل
Not a trend, an inheritance
Muraqabah, to live watchful of the One who is watching you, is not borrowed from anywhere. The Prophet ﷺ named the very summit of the religion in a single sentence.
أَنْ تَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَاهُ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَرَاهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَاكَ
“To worship Allah as though you see Him; and though you see Him not, He surely sees you.”
THE ḤADĪTH OF JIBRĪL · ON IḤSĀN
Go deeper · التَّزْكِيَة
The presence check keeps you awake through the day. When you're ready to do the work, two disciplines take you further. One strengthens the soul with what you add. The other guards it from what you let slip. They carry each other.
To live aware that Allah watches you, made into a discipline. You go, day after day, without falling into seven sins of the tongue and heart. Fall into one, and you begin again at day one.
Stations, 3 Ṣāliḥīn · 10 Muttaqīn · 40 Muḥsinīn
The acts that keep your eman high enough to hold the watch. A quiet daily checklist that resets each morning, so the good becomes a rhythm rather than a memory.
Muraqabah and Daily Deeds unlock together. Add, and avoid, at once.
Yours to keep, forever. No subscription, ever. And the presence check stays free for everyone.
Where this is going
Everything above, in the app now.
A short lesson in Ousama's voice to lift you back up when you slip.
A guided contemplation: sit with a single Name of Allah, led by voice.
End the day awake to Him, not scrolling away from Him.
The house is bigger than the door. Come in early.
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