Muraqabah · a practice of presence

Your phone checks on everything.
Except your heart.

Yaqzah is a presence check. A few times a day — unannounced — a voice note arrives asking one question: where is your heart right now? The practice the scholars called muraqabah, in a form your pocket finally understands.

One email when Yaqzah opens. Nothing else, ever.

See how a presence check works ↓

Created by Ousama Alshurafa

The diagnosis

Between two states, the whole spiritual life is decided.

غَفْلَة
Ghaflah — heedlessness

The sleep of the heart.

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.

يَقَظَة
Yaqzah — wakefulness

The heart, awake.

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

Four steps. Thirty seconds. Straight to the heart.

1

It finds you unannounced

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.

2

One breath first

Before a single word, the screen asks only that you breathe. In, and out. He is closer to you than that breath — وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

3

A word, in Ousama’s voice recorded

Not a text notification. Ousama speaks — thirty seconds, the Qur’an’s framing and a modern jolt, aimed at the exact place your heart wandered off to.

4

Return the glance

A moment of dhikr, then one honest question: were you present, drifting, or asleep? No judgment on the answer — the honesty itself is the practice. Your heart’s week, tracked like nothing else you own.

Not a trend — an inheritance

The world discovered “mindfulness” a decade ago.
Islam has taught this for fourteen centuries.

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

Every presence check is a rehearsal of that one line.

Where this is going

The presence check is the door.

Presence checks
Random muraqabah check-ins in Ousama’s voice
Building now
Guided muraqabah
Sit with a single Name of Allah, led by voice
Next
Qur’an, contemplated
Page-accurate mushaf, reflected on verse by verse
Soon
Sleep & theory
End the day awake to Him, not scrolling away from Him
Soon

The house is bigger than the door. Come in early.

Be there when it opens.

Yaqzah is in active development. Leave your email and you’ll be first through the door — with a founding-member place held for you.

One email at launch. That’s the whole deal.