Archive — Sull Kaak

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Listen April 3, 2026

From Exile to Authority | Life of Prophet Muhammad (saw) - Ep 64 | Arq-e-Gulab - 090

In this episode we witness a profound transformation: the Prophet (saw), once a persecuted outsider, now emerges as a leader shaping a new society. In…

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Read March 30, 2026

First Principles and Civilizational Change

The essay argues that the deepest transformations in a civilization do not begin with visible changes in fashion, language, or institutions, but with the replacement of its first principles—the foundational beliefs about truth, morality, the sacred, and the purpose of life. A society may appear outwardly continuous, yet once its metaphysical core is altered, it has already undergone a revolution of the soul. For Muslims facing modernity, the crisis is therefore not merely political or institutional, but civilizational: we still use Islamic vocabulary, but often no longer think from Islamic premises. The essay calls for a recovery of those first principles, for without them culture becomes hollow, religion becomes semantic, and a people slowly forget who they are.

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Listen March 25, 2026

The New Community in Medina | Life of Prophet Muhammad (saw) - Ep 63 | Arq-e-Gulab - 089

In this episode we witness the birth of a new kind of society. From a simple mud-brick compound, the Prophet (saw) and the believers begin building not…

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Watch March 16, 2026

Women Liberation

Link to the essay: https://www.sullkaak.com/2021/08/women-liberation-an-alternative-viewpoint This essay challenges the standard modern narrative of…

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Listen March 15, 2026

The Migration from Mecca to Medina | Life of Prophet Muhammad (saw) - Ep 62 | Arq-e-Gulab - 088

In this episode, The Migration from Mecca to Medina, we follow the dramatic events that led to the Hijrah. As the Quraysh leadership plots to assassinate…

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Read March 3, 2026

Before the Arguments Begin - Chapter 5 - Forces of Displacement - I

Across the first four chapters, we have been unravelling culture as the unseen loom silently weaving our identities, judgments, and reflexes. We began by exposing how seemingly personal convictions, like a café owner’s choice to retain or abandon nun-chai, the transformation of Friday bazaars into selfie-spots, or even how we interpret friendship through digital responsiveness, are not independent acts of rational reasoning, but expressions of cognitive templates quietly installed by culture.

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Read January 14, 2026

Before the Arguments Begin - Chapter 4 - Forces of Placement

When leaves fall in every season, the arborist does not polish the leaves; he checks the root. So too here. When the sign loses its power, it is rarely because the thread or the dye has failed; it is because the meaning that once animated the loom has thinned. The craft survives as a costume, the word as a shell, the ritual as choreography without covenant.

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Listen December 31, 2025

The End of Times | Sull Kaak's Podcast | Finale

We were born into a time the Prophet ﷺ described before we existed. Corruption dressed as progress, lies travelling faster than truth, hearts exhausted by…

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Listen December 30, 2025

Understanding Beauty - II | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S05E11

We speak so much about being “good Muslims” and “having strong faith” — but very little about living beautifully before Allah. Yet in the Hadith of…

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Listen December 29, 2025

Understanding Beauty - I | Sull Kaak's Podcast | S05E10