Taqdees

THE STORY BEHIND

“I don’t remember what year it was, time after Covid has the unprecedented quality of being hazy. I was running after diagnoses after having gotten Covid and then Long Covid. It was in those months of social isolation, uncertainty, and fluctuating levels of ability that I felt the need for Taqdees. Something which took care of all my needs across different spheres of life while helping me live a daily life of peace where I feel fulfilled in the mundane. I wanted it to help me achieve not just professional goals but also social, personal developmental, health and faith-related goals. I wanted effective coaching, mentorship, mechanisms of planning, review, and reflection, support, and wholesome community—all in one place. I don’t remember finding anything that responded well to these asks.

I wouldn’t say I founded Taqdees or the earliest iteration of it. Because I truly don’t think I did. It was all Allah, I was only tying the camel. “Only by admitting the impossibility of praising Allah in exchange for everything He has given us can we truly attain the ranks of the grateful” (source). Now, it’s not just mine but everybody’s. Allah will always be greater, He will always give more. Now, not only is there a solution to all my asks, but a solution to your asks too, anybody’s. All in one place. I could never have imagined or even dreamt of this. But Allah works in unimaginably, ungraspab-ly beautiful ways. Surely, we plan and He plans. And Allah is the best of planners.”

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