‘o you who has a heart, where has your heart gone? will you recover it?’
may Allah ﷻ raise you in such ranks that even the martyred are envious
“It’s impossible for you to claim you love Allaah and not praise him continuously, and it’s impossible that you praise Allaah continuously and not see the sweetness of that in this life; and it’s impossible you see the sweetness of praising Allaah and then be preoccupied with other than Him.”
over coffee with my mom this morning: “sometimes we hesitate to invite people into our life because we feel like our space isn’t good enough yet. things are a little messy, or our place settings don’t match, or our situation isn’t quite what we want it to be. don’t let that stop you. invite people in anyway.”
Al-Hasan رحمه الله said:
"From the signs that Allah has abandoned/turned away from a servant,
is that He makes him preoccupied with that which does not concern him."
[غداء الألباب صحفة ٥٤]
I am an infinitely flawed human being.
May Allah forgive all my faults and shortcomings. May He never be so upset with me that I become blind to all my mistakes. Ameen.
you start enjoying your life when you appreciate the small moments. the everyday things. that's what takes up most of your time, every single day. enjoy them appreciate them.
The things she says that sounds like ‘I love you’ without saying it.
You’re opening the door to your home or walking around the farmers market or talking to someone you love on the phone or laughing w friends over dinner or sitting on the couch or looking out the window of a car, an airplane, a living room, and an emotional breakthrough reaches out to you like an eclipse, a subtle shift, a threshold you just passed through without even looking for it
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
أرى كل إنسان يرى عيب غيره ويعمى عن العيب الذي هو فيه
Everyone is critical of the flaws of others, but blind to their own.
عندما تنزلق قدمك يمكنك دوماً استعادة توازنك ، ولكن عندما ينزلق لسانك .. لا يمكنك استرداد كلماتك.
"When your foot slips, you can always recover your balance, but when your tongue slips, you cannot recover your words."
