Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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?
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
Don’t ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you’ll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.
Love isn’t supposed to torment you. If it does, there’s probably something wrong.
Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very loveable.
Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you.
Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.
Don’t think being ‘religious’ means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it – He doesn’t harden it.