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the universe knew I'd be too powerful if I had the capacity to carry on conversations
I have a habit of changing my perfume after major life events, so that way if I ever want to go back to a certain time period in my life, I just have to buy a bottle of perfume that will be full of memories and nostalgia
Al-Imām ibn Salah [may Allāh have mercy on him] said:
“Whomsoever safeguards the morning and evening supplications, the supplications after the prayers, and the supplications before sleeping will be written among those who remember Allāh abundantly.”
Al-Adhkār | Page 10 | Al-Imām an-Nawawi [may Allāh have mercy on him]
Every time you begin a new month ask yourself
(1) what should I stop doing
(2) what should I start doing
(3) what should I keep doing
"أدرّب نفسي على الصمت، تحديدًا في الأوقات التي أعرف فيها مدى حدّة الكلام الذي سيخرج مني."
“Do not let your past (carelessness) make you lose hope of achieving good, for many people have come back to wakefulness after long sleep.”
— Imām Ibn al-Jawzī | Awaking from the Sleep of Heedlessness, p.58
There’s a brother who says
والى الله ترجع الأمور Wa ilal-lāhi turja'ul umoor And to Allah returns all affairs
When someone would hurt him or try to have a meaningless argument with him
A habit I picked up as well
Baaz aa, baaz aa, har anche hastee baaz aa. Gar kaafeer u gabr u bot parastee baaz aa. Een dargaahe maa dargaahe nowmeedee neest,Saad baar agar towba shikastee baaz aa.
Come again come again whatever you are come again, if you're a kafir or idol- worshiper come again. This home of ours is not a home of hopelessness, even if you've repented one hundred times, come again.
Ibn Uthaymin رحمه الله said:
“The test intensifies
when the relief is close.”
[Sharh al-Mukhtasar ‘Alaa Buloogh al-Mar’aam, 376]
The Prophet ﷺ said,
“When death was approaching the Prophet Nuh عليه السلام, he said to his son,
‘I will narrate to you my bequest; I command you with two things and prohibit you from two things.
I command you with La ilaha illAllah (‘There is none worthy of worship in truth except Allaah),
if the seven heavens and the seven earths were placed upon a scale and La ilaha illAllah was placed on the other, then La ilaha illAllah would be heavier.
If the seven heavens and the seven earths were a closed off circle then La ilaha illAllah would be able to break it.
The second thing I command you with is Subhana Allaahi wa bihamdihi because it is a supplication for everything, and by it the creation is given its provision, and I prohibit you from shirk and pride.’”
[Al Silsila As Sahiha, 3130]
Yūsuf ibn al-Husayn ar-Rāzī said:
“The most difficult thing in the world is ikhlās. How I struggle to remove showing off from my heart and it is as if it grows in it again with other colours.”
[Jami' Al-'Ulum Wa'l-Hikam by Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali رحمه الله pg. 10]
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“When a person does not have enough good deeds to reach a certain level in Jannah, but Allah wants him to attain that level, then Allah tests him and puts him through difficult trials so that Allah may make him reach that level (in Jannah).”
[Sahih Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 2908]
Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله:
“Lofty ranks cannot be reached except with trials.”
[Majmu’ al-Fataawa v25, p302]
The Sehzade Mosque in Laleli, Istanbul (detail), c. 1915. Ludwig Hans Fischer
If it weren't for Islam, I would have lost my sanity long back. Islam keeps me afloat.
Ya Allāh (ﷻ) grant me the strength to battle laziness and sleep, so I may wake up for Tahajjud and Fajr daily.
“Why should that charming beauty, like the mid-day sun ablaze, Hide herself behind the veil, when none at her can gaze.”
जमाल-ए-दिल-फ़रोज़ — جمال دلفروز. Face whose beauty lights up the heart.
𝗠𝗶𝗿𝘇𝗮 𝗔𝘀𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗕𝗮𝗶𝗴 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻 (Ghalib) // 1797-1869
It is reported that Masrūq – Allāh have mercy on him – said:
Everyone should have times when they sit alone, remember their sins, and thus seek [Allāh’s] forgiveness for them.
Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Al-Zuhd article 2038.
You really are your worst enemy if you don’t have discipline
Constantly reading the Quran and pondering on the words of Allah would give your heart the peace it needs, because it's a message from Allah to you.
Read the Quran as much as you can, day and night, get closer to Allah.
I have experienced this number of times that the more I drift away from my deen, the more I lose my balance in life.
Sufyān ath-Thawri, [may Allāh have mercy on him], said:
“Do not accompany someone who counts his favors to you.”
Shu’ab ul-Ēmān, 6701 | Al-Imām al-Bayhaqee [may Allāh have mercy on him]
Abul ‘Āliyyah [may Allāh have mercy on him] said:
“A time will come upon the people wherein there hearts will be devoid and derelict of the Qur’ān.
They will find neither sweetness nor acquire any delight by its recitation.
If they fall short of performing what they have been commanded to do, they will say: ‘Certainly, Allāh is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’
If they commit that which they have been forbidden from doing, they will say: ‘We shall be forgiven, we have not associated any partners unto Allāh.’
Their affairs will be based on covetousness [and false hope], possessing no truth [and no sincerity].”
Kitāb az-Zuhd, 1714 | Al-Imām Ahmad bin Hanbal [may Allāh have mercy on him]
just me n my oversized clothes against the world
coming back to the things you loved when you were younger feels so special
If you have sinned in private, make sure you do even lot more good deeds in private...
So that when the scales will be set on the day of judgement the latter will outweigh the former.