When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.
We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.
Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
When you suffer, don’t speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don’t stop.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth – the sun, the moon, the stars – with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it’s often in the test of ease that we fail most.
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.