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Your light,
kept honestly.

Al-Ghazālī described the heart as a lamp — the Mishkāt. The Lantern makes it visible: a living lamp in the app that burns with what you actually do, and dims when you rest. No leaderboards. No shame. A quiet record between you and Allah.

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اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ

“Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His light is a niche in which is a lamp…”

al-Nūr 24:35
Heart

Three lights, one lamp.

Your heart is the traveller — watch it cross from one station to the next.

Your light burns bright

Tap a state — the lamp's four honest states, as in the app.

The flame — your listening

Steady when you’ve been with the books, softening when you haven’t. It flares the day you return.

The oil — your acting

Knowledge is for living. Each day you act on what you learned, the oil rises — the lamp has fuel because ʿamal feeds it.

The glass — your knowledge

What you studied stays clear while it’s fresh and frosts as it fades — and the app offers the review that wipes the glass.

Choose your guide

Three masters. One lamp.

The app ships three complete classical station-ladders — you choose whose map guides your climb. The chosen scholar is the path.

Watching the lamp is free for everyone · beginning the guided climb is a Joyful+ commitment.

الغزالي

al-Ghazālī

Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn · eight maqāmāt

The classic path of the heart — turning back, and rising to perfect peace.

First station توبة tawba — Repentance

ابن القيم

Ibn al-Qayyim

Madārij al-Sālikīn · eight manāzil

The seeker’s ascent — awakening from heedlessness, climbing to the love of Allah.

First station اليقظة yaqaẓa — The Awakening

الجيلاني

al-Jīlānī

al-Ghunya li-Ṭālibī Ṭarīq al-Ḥaqq · eight maqāmāt

The path of surrender — dying to the self’s own will to live by His.

First station التوبة tawba — The Turning

Stations

The stations of the heart.

The eight stations of the heart — from turning back to perfect peace. Kept days and sealed lessons carry you from station to station, and the climb only ever rises: a realized station is yours.

توبة tawba صبر ṣabr شكر shukr خوف ورجاء khawf wa rajāʾ زهد zuhd توكل tawakkul محبة maḥabba رضا riḍā

توبة tawba Station 1 of 8

Repentance · Turning back — the door every seeker passes through first.

  1. 1 توبة tawba · Repentance Turning back — the door every seeker passes through first.
  2. 2 صبر ṣabr · Patience Steadiness that holds — in ease, in longing, and in hardship alike.
  3. 3 شكر shukr · Gratitude Meeting every gift by knowing its Giver — and using it well.
  4. 4 خوف ورجاء khawf wa rajāʾ · Fear & Hope Awe of Him and longing for Him, held in balance.
  5. 5 زهد zuhd · Renunciation Holding the world in an open hand — loosening its grip on the heart.
  6. 6 توكل tawakkul · Trust Leaning the whole weight of the heart on Allah alone.
  7. 7 محبة maḥabba · Love The heart leaning toward the One it was made to love.
  8. 8 رضا riḍā · Contentment The heart at rest — at peace with whatever He sends.
al-Ghazālī’s path — one of three ladders in the app.

Tap a station on the arc.

The honesty

A tracker that doesn’t lie to you.

The day turns at Maghrib, as days do. A missed day means a resting lamp, not a broken streak — the Lantern never manufactures guilt, never inflates numbers, and never shows your record to anyone else. It is the opposite of a social feed: muḥāsaba, made gentle.

Light it tonight.

The lamp burns for every member, free and Joyful+ alike. The guided climb — your chosen scholar, station by station — comes with Joyful+, along with the watch-face lamp and home-screen widgets that keep it in view.

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