#ali hammuda

Allah swt may take away something from you in order to give you something back. Allah swt may withhold in order to shower you with something else. Allah swt may break your heart in order to mend it stronger than it was before. He swt may impoverish you in order to enrich you. He swt may deprive you in order to give you. He may give you an illness in order to cure you. In fact, He swt may give you death in order to give you life. Allah swt may also close a particular door in your life and that is not out of spite but that is to encourage you to move a little bit further down the corridor of life and to see other doors on either side of the the corridor that you were previously unwilling to explore and see what else is available in the land of Allah swt.

– Ali Hammuda || The Gift of Pain

[Photo taken by me last friday umrah]

Then, thank Allaah that your mistakes aren’t displayed to a wider audience, that your heart is better guarded against insincerity and that your good deeds are better protected from destruction.

If a person’s eemaan, his or her faith is not serviced, monitored, refreshed and revived on a regular basis, much like everything else in life it will wear away until very little remains.