What Salah Taught Me About Cybersecurity
Five times a day, we are told to guard something. It took a master’s in security to understand how much that word holds.
Read the post →We talk about amanah — trust — in money and promises. We rarely talk about it in WhatsApp groups and the password on the fridge.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تُؤَدُّوا الْأَمَانَاتِ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهَا“Indeed, Allah commands you to render trusts to whom they are due.”Surah An-Nisaʾ 4:58
- Turn on two-step verification for email, WhatsApp and banking.
- Use a password manager, not one password everywhere.
- Update phones and laptops when prompted.
- Pause before you click urgent messages.
- Give children their own profile with parental controls.
- Think before posting children’s photos.
- Back up what you can’t replace.
None of this needs a degree. It needs what our faith asks everywhere else: care, attention, responsibility.
Rumaisa Amir teaches the Quran as something alive and leads IT & security at an educational institute in Dubai. Author of 99 Keys to Ease. More about my work →