Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT
This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.
You keep only what you give. . . to Him.
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations. But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue. . . And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said: 'Truly, there is a Heaven in this world, [and] whoever does not enter it, will not enter the Heaven of the next world. ' And in that heaven, complete peace is not something of a moment. It is a state, eternal.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.
Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?