Al-Hujeireh mosque sits quietly, nestled among its neighbours, seeking little attention. Walk...
Friday prayers were about to begin; our taxi driver sped through the ancient streets of Jerusalem, towards the Sacred Sanctuary of al-Aqsa. The road ahead was closed. He turned right into...
For our first ever crossover episode, Zara speaks to Imran Ali Malik, host of the American Submitter podcast. They discuss the concept of travel as a 'mutual unveiling' and share 'transformative' travel experiences. Imran talks about his time in Guinea Bissau, where tribes were converting to Islam after an elder dreamt of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), and tells us about the Wali Songo, the 'Nine Saints' of Indonesia.
The erudite spiritual master and saint Ibn Ata’illah, may God have mercy...
Abu Ayyub on Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the Patron saint of Istanbul The name Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi may not be familiar to those outside of Turkey, yet he is one of...
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For centuries, the dargah of Moinuddin Chishti, otherwise known as Hazrat Khwaja Gharib...
Mustafa Briggs on spiritual seclusion in The Gambia The small coastal town of Gunjur lies just an hour away from The Gambian capital Banjul. After a few minutes spent driving...
Sidi Bou Said: Tunisia’s Trendy Coffee Town & its Hidden Sufi Connection...
Each year in Rabi al-Awwal, the small island of Lamu plays host...
Walking through the heart of the old city, one may find its cobblestoned streets lead them to a compound accentuated by a gleaming white wall and a tall graceful tree...
A journey through the Mauritanian wilderness to visit Murabit al-Hajj Night was...
Listen on iTunes | Listen on Spotify The Moroccan city Fes, like the other...
Zara Choudhary on visiting the Companions (Sahaba) of Jordan Memory is a fickle thing; clear one minute, hazy or gone the next- but I remember the perfume clearly; a beautiful,...
“Look! It’s Dino Merlin,” whispers the man beside me. A well groomed white...
Riding through the Kenyan countryside on the modern standard gauge railway one...
A walk through the old sections of Istanbul and one will inevitably come across many graves and mausoleums. For the keen-eyed, it will be a journey through Islamic history, a...
Our last stop on our trip to Kenya lay just off its...
Mohammed Khan on visiting Imam Jazuli and the 7 Saints of Marrakesh...
This post deals with one of the questions we get asked most often: how do I visit the Blessed Tree? For more information about the historical significance of the Tree, read...
The humidity of Central Java has a specific, relentless character. It is...
The cultural fabric of Kochi has been elegantly woven by the beauty of Islam. Known as the ‘Princess of the Arabian Sea’, the city is a well known tourist hotspot...
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Those who have followed Sacred Footsteps for some time will know that...
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. Qur’an 14:24 We arrived at midday; it was windy and...
On the hills in and around Cape Town, you will find 300 year old Muslim graves belonging to notable individuals who arrived on the southern tip of the African continent in chains, as slaves or political prisoners of colonisers. They brought nothing with them, except faith in their hearts and the remembrance of God on their tongues.
Upon entering the maqam of Sunan Gunung Jati in Cirebon, one dives...
There it stood, where I least expected it. Perhaps not the most aesthetically pleasing building I’d ever seen, but there was something almost charming about the way it had stubbornly...
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One of the peculiar sensations seasoned wayfarers fail to mention, as you...
It was a blistering hot day right in the middle of the Mauritanian Sahara desert, and my friends and I were heading towards a small village, embarking on what felt...
It was the hottest summer of my life. I arrived in Fes...
Muhammad Ayaz Ramjaun visits the sufi saints of Mauritius White sand beaches...
Asha Ahmad crouches around a symbolic green tomb of Ali Hamdon, one of the Islamic scholars who arrived in the Ethiopian city of Harar from South Arabia in the 12th...
As soon as I stepped out of the taxi I knew I...
