If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you’ll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments.
Take care of the hearts you’ve been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.
Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.
This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can’t always be with in this life. And being with them forever.