Where Do I Begin?

“I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.”

“Remember Allah in your times of ease and He will remember you when you are in difficulty.”

“If Allah has put you in a difficult situation in this world, it’s a chance to earn ease in the hereafter through patience.”

“إنما خلقنا الله ليعطينا ، لا ليأخذ مناGod created us to give to us, not to take away from us.”

“Every one of us is tested in different ways. For some of us, it might be the excess of wealth, for others, the lack of wealth. For some, it might be in the avoidance of alcohol, for other, guarding one’s tongue from speaking evil. Never feel superior to someone struggling with one test, because for sure, you are struggling with another.”

“If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you’ll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments.”

“If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart.”

“Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.”

“One teardrop that falls from the eye of a believer out of love and fear for Him is better than this world and everything it contains.”

“The greeting of peace (as-salamu ‘alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer (for the person you are greeting) for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.”

“My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, do not harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and do not teach what you do not know.”

“And for those who fear Allāh, He (ever) prepares a way out, And He provides for him from (sources) he never could imagine. And if anyone puts his trust in Allāh, sufficient is (Allāh) for him”