WILDFLOWER

The world today is spiritually adrift. Have the dunya in your hand and Allah in your heart. Leave with your tongues moist with the remembrance of Allah ﷻ. People are preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness, but real happiness that infiltrates the heart is the dhikr (remembrance) of Allah. Be sincere for Him. Every time you fall or you err, or darkness starts to fall onto your heart, make tawba.

Imagine being of the slaves whom Allaah loves .  What Allaah has mentioned in the hadeeth qudsi of the great virtues of those whom He loves It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allaah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said:“Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him. My servant draws not near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have enjoined upon him, and My servant continues to draw near to Me with supererogatory works so that I shall love him. When I love him I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him, and were he to ask Me for refuge, I would surely grant him it. I do not hesitate about anything as much as I hesitate about [seizing] the soul of My faithful servant: he hates death and I hate hurting him.“  Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6502.

Some have found God in the depths of their sins.

‘Standing in taraweeh (Ramadan night prayers) while everyone is weeping – except you. Your friends talk about how exhilarating fasting is for them – but all you feel is irritation; and that is if you feel anything at all. Your du`as (supplications) are just words you repeat – without heart.

This reminds me of this ayah:

All you’ve ever needed was Allah.

i once asked my father who was his favourite. me or my brothers ‘baba, who do you love more?’ i remember, baba smiled and told me ‘i love my kids all the same’ so i smiled back, right into his tired brown eyes but baba carried on ‘i know you will never leave me alone’ baba said. he read on my face that his words confused me. so baba kept going ‘i know when i am old, it is my daughter who will put the food into my mouth. i know it is my daughter who will bring me a glass of water on hot days. i know it is my daughter who will take my hand and listen to me rambling like old people often do. i know my daughter will have a husband and kids. but i know she’ll never forget her old father’ baba said. ‘because daughters are grateful, daughters are soft and caring, daughters remember and daughters give back.’

‎The Du'ā that’s answered the quickest is a Du'ā in secret for another person.

As much as you can, keep dunya (worldly life) in your hand—not in your heart. That means when someone insults you, keep it out of your heart so it doesn’t make you bitter or defensive. When someone praises you, also keep it out of your heart, so it doesn’t make you arrogant and self-deluded. When you face hardship and stress, don’t absorb it in your heart, so you don’t become hopeless and overwhelmed. Instead keep it in your hands and realize that everything passes. When you’re given a gift by God, don’t hold it in your heart. Hold it in your hand so that you don’t begin to love the gift more than the giver. And so that when it is taken away you can truly respond with ‘inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon’: ‘indeed we belong to God, and to God we return’.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

‏ملعون أكثر من أبو لهب More cursed than Abu Lahab.

Some days, I wonder if you miss me. Other days, I wonder why I’m still wondering.