DEEN TEACHINGS

“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

"The closer you get to Allāh, the more humble you become and then you begin to realize your shortcomings and mistakes. The best, most pious of our Salaf never had that arrogant way of thinking. They never said, "look at us, our days and nights are spent in between Da'wah and 'Ibādāh". They used to say something much different than that. They said, "if our faults became apparent, no one would even give salām upon us"

Sometimes I feel like my soul hurts. The pain is unbearable. What I went through was not easy and some people around me make it worse.

I hope that the next person that calls you beautiful does so in a way that encompasses all of you. I hope when they call you beautiful, they mean your voice in the morning and the light in your eyes when you talk about what you’re passionate about. I hope when they call you beautiful, they mean the way you forget your keys everyday, so you always say goodbye twice before you actually leave .

All my teenage years, I had bottled up anger and grief and promised myself I'd never cry but when I sat down with her hands in my hand and looked her in the eye, all the anger turned into tears. I sobbed for hours and she sat there, rubbing my back. That's when I saw. Growing up is also tearing down walls, it's also letting go of the anger.