ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللَّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, dear brothers and sisters!

As the exam season comes to an end and the halls of KTH slowly return to life, many of us are rediscovering our balance. Some rested, some worked, and some simply needed to break from it all. Whether you return with plans, fatigue, or gratitude, this is the month to breathe, to begin again.

NOW let’s see what January brings👇

Upcoming Events

🥾 KICK-OFF: Family Feud with MSKTH 🤫

An evening where nobody knows exactly what to expect… but everyone leaves talking about it.

Teams, tension, laughter, and a few surprises.
Bring your energy, bring your friends, or just bring yourself.

Details will come later: just be there.

🕌 Quranic arabic Workshop العربية

A workshop for those who need guidance in navigating the language of the Qur’an to deepen your connection with it. Expect moments of clarity, challenge, and quiet discovery.

Come with curiosity. Leave with something you did not have before.
More will be revealed soon…

🧕 Hijab Day

Explore the hijab beyond appearance.

Try different fabrics, learn simple wrapping styles, and join our scarf and modest clothing exchange. Bring a piece you no longer use and give it new life.

Short reflections, open conversation, and a welcoming space to learn and connect.

More details soon…

🎿 Ski Day with MSKTH

Fresh air, white slopes, and that classic moment when you realise snow is both your friend and your rival.

Whether it is your first time on skis or you already speak the secret language of ski lifts, you are welcome. Warm drinks, shared falls, and a lot of laughter are guaranteed.

More details coming soon… just get your gloves ready.

Recap of December with MSKTH

⛸ ICE & LIGHT: Skating night ❄️

Hitting the ice, some gliding, some negotiating with gravity.
There was laughter, cold noses, and one brave pirouette attempt that became more “half-spin then graceful sit-down.” Applause still happened.

Great vibes, new friends, and slightly better balance all around.

👾Lecture canceled – turned into a game night instead

The lecture was unfortunately canceled due to traffic, but the evening was quickly saved. We switched to games, including an intense round of Mafia where a few unexpected “villains” were revealed.

We know some of you were really looking forward to the lecture, and we will make it up to you in the future. Despite the change of plans, it turned into a fun night together.

🏕 Winter Cabin Retreat (Brothers Event)

There was grilling, marshmallows, sauna, and a few heroes who actually took the ice bath.

An axe may or may not have suffered a tragic fate… but the korvstroganoff turned out so good that no one complained. Priorities were clearly in order.

Simple moments, lots of laughs, and a great way to close the year together.

🎥 Video of the Month - Majnun Layla: Transgressing in the name of Love

The story of Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, known as Majnun Layla, has echoed through centuries as one of the most profound symbols of love’s power and peril.

As children, Majnun and Layla shared a bond that grew into obsession.
When he began composing poetry about her, her tribe, fearing shame, refused his hand in marriage. Heartbroken, Majnun wandered the desert, speaking in verses, addressing stars, wind, and the trees as witnesses to his longing to her.

His poems showed a man in ishq (obsessive love). Each line blurred the border between divine and human affection, between sanity and surrender. Poetry, for him, became the only language capable of holding the unspeakable weight of love, a mirror of the human struggle to express what transcends expression.

Through his madness, Majnun revealed what every seeker faces:
to love deeply is to risk losing oneself, yet through loss, one finds the truth of devotion.

The story would later inspire Sufi thinkers and poets from Rumi to Ibn Arabi, who saw in Majnun’s longing a parable of the soul’s yearning for the Divine.
For them, Layla was not a woman, but the reflection of the Beloved,
and Majnun’s madness was not sickness, but the breaking of the ego before truth. Although some would argue it was to the wrong person/object of devotion.

We leave the question to you:
Where is the line between love that elevates and love that consumes?
Does devotion require losing yourself or learning how to stay whole while giving?

🤍 Ayah of The Month

Boundaries are fences of mercy, protecting what is sacred from being scattered.
Every relationship, whether with family, friends, or the one you love, needs limits that preserve sincerity and selfhood.

To cross every line, even in the name of love, is to lose balance.
And often, it’s not others we harm first, but ourselves.
There are moments when you know staying too long, giving too much, or ignoring your own exhaustion is to transgress upon your own soul.

There is a well-known hadith (historical report) about three men who once came to the Prophet ﷺ, each declaring extreme forms of piety:
one vowed never to marry,
another to fast every day,
and the third to pray all night without rest.

The Prophet ﷺ corrected them, saying,

Even worship, which seems infinite, is guided by balance,
because faith is not meant to consume life, but to complete it. Yet we find people going extremes even today. To find a balance is a human struggle one endavours and it is important to take note of people’s journey in life, perhaps it is for that person only a phase. Compassion and understanding is what is needed to reach the heart of others.

Love, without wisdom, consumes.
Wisdom, without love, hardens.
Boundaries reconcile the two. They do not exist to imprison you. They exist to remind you that every moment has its sacred proportion.
Everything has its time and its place.

🧠 A Question to Reflect Upon

When it comes to love for others, for work, or even for God - which path do you think leads to true harmony?

A) To love without limits, giving entirely of yourself, believing that sincerity needs no restraint,
or
B) To love with awareness, setting boundaries not to limit love, but to protect it, keeping space for balance, growth, and renewal?

So what do you think?
Is love purer when it knows no bounds, or wiser when it learns where to rest?

That wraps up this month’s issue! Thank you for being a valued part of our community. We look forward to seeing you at this month’s events, in sha Allah!

Sincerely,

The board of MSKTH