The Sakina Story

Sisters of Sakina didn’t start with a business plan. It started with a realisation that so many of us, reverts and born Muslims alike, are navigating this deen with little or no support around us. No sisters to sit with. No one who just gets it.

Islam can be the most peaceful thing you’ve ever known, and yet the journey can still feel lonely, especially for reverts, who often step into this deen without the support network that born Muslims may have grown up with. And even born Muslims, at different points in their journey, find themselves needing exactly that same thing: sisters who remind them they’re not walking this alone.

We believe that shouldn’t be the case. Because underneath everything else — where we’re from, how long we’ve been Muslim, and what our journey has looked like — we all share one thing: submission to Allah. That’s not just a shared belief. It’s a foundation strong enough to build a sisterhood upon.

So that’s what we’re building: not just retreats, but a sisterhood rooted in sakina, found together and held together, one gathering at a time.

This is Sisters of Sakina.

Meet Your Sister

Assalamu Alaikum, I’m Rachael, the sister behind Sisters of Sakina.

For ten years, I travelled solo to 34 countries with no real plan, just me and the world. Travel was my whole life. Then in 2025, I decided to move across the world to Thailand. And it was there, in complete solitude, that I found Islam. Alhamdulillah!

I fell in love with Allah through the Qur’an — one page, one ayah at a time, with no one beside me to share it with. I walked this journey of deen completely alone. And while I found real peace in that closeness with Allah, part of me still craved sisterhood. Someone to sit with. Someone who understood.

I’d always dreamed of running retreats where I could bring women together to explore the world side by side. Travel had shaped my entire life, and I wanted to share that with others. Then slowly, those two things — my love of travel and my longing for sisterhood — came together into something bigger than either one alone.

Sisters of Sakina is what happens when a solo journey becomes one you no longer have to walk by yourself.

Sisterhood

“The believers are but one brotherhood, so make peace between your brothers/sisters

and fear Allah that you may receive mercy.” – (49:10)

Sisterhood, to us, isn’t about sameness. It’s about the bond that exists simply because we belong to the same ummah. Sisters of Sakina is for women of every background, age, and culture — Sunni, Shia, Sufi, or none of the above. We don’t ask where you stand on that.

It doesn’t matter where you are on your journey either — whether you reverted last month, have walked this deen for ten years, or were born into it. There’s no hierarchy here and no judgment. Come as you are.

What matters most is what we share: belief in Allah, a longing for His mercy, and a desire for His guidance. Everything else is just detail. That’s sisterhood, the Sisters of Sakina way.

Sakina

“It is He who sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the believers, that they would increase in

faith along with their [present] faith.” – (48:4)

Sakina is the inner peace and tranquillity gifted by Allah. It is not something we manufacture ourselves or something we can chase down alone. Throughout the Quran, it’s described as something sent down: into the hearts of believers, upon the Messenger and his companions, carried as a sign of faith within a community. It descends. It isn’t earned through effort or willed into being by a single person.

That’s the heart of our name. Sisters of Sakina exists to be that gathering.It is a space where God-given tranquillity has room to descend through worship, through support and through simply being together. We’re not offering you a version of peace you build yourself. We’re creating the conditions the Quran shows it arriving in. Sisters, gathered.

Sisters & Sakina. One is the vessel for the other.

Sojourn

“Oh believers! Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation.'” — (29:20)

Travel isn’t incidental to Sisters of Sakina. It’s intentional. Allah commands us to move through the land and witness His creation — not just in landscapes, but in the sheer variety of how His people live, worship, and love.

There’s a psychological truth here too. Home comes with routines, familiar faces, versions of ourselves shaped by everyone who already knows our story. Stepping away for a brief sojourn gives us room to breathe differently. To rediscover a version of ourselves that home doesn’t always leave space for. Surrounded instead by sisters walking the same path and worshipping the same Lord.

That’s why our retreats aren’t just held in a nice location. The travel itself does the work — distance, unfamiliarity, and sisterhood, together, creating the conditions for real spiritual reconnection.

The Sakina Story

Meet Your Sister

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Sakina

Sojourn

“Oh believers! Travel through the earth and see how Allah did originate creation.'” — (29:20)

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