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rujie
11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
We must push on relentlessly toward our goal, no matter what thoughts of unworthiness or failure attempt to dissuade us. Never allow yourself to feel that your spiritual work, your striving, or your discipline is not paying off. Even if you did not see the results immediately, or if you are not acknowledged by others, your actions are never for nought. If you are chopping down a tree, you may hack away for hundreds of blows and not see the tree move a millimeter. It is only when you make the final cut that the tree falls. Although you saw no apparent progress, each and every one of those blows was equally necessary to accomplish your goal. A saint is a sinner who never gave up. [Cohen, The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore]
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rujie
11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
He made the Hereafter an abode to reward his believing servants only because this world cannot contain what He wishes to bestow upon them and because He deemed their worth too high to reward them in a world without permanence. [Ibn Ata'Allah]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
[Imam al-Mawlud]
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rujie
11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Prayer gifts us with purpose and direction, and peace in that direction. Prayer is a journey and a destination. Prayer is a chance to become intimately familiar with the better person we know we can be------and that familiarity is the beginning of wisdom. Prayer helps. Prayer is important. Prayer is needed. We need prayer. Prayer doesn't need us, and Allah doesn't need prayer. Prayer doesn't help Allah, it helps us. It isn't something we must do, it is something we should do. Pray!!! [Kelly, The Rhythm of Life]
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rujie
11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Flee to the shelter of Allah's grace. He showers our souls with His grace. When He provides shelter, how can you lack shelter? Fear not; water and fire will become your army. Did the sea not help Noah and Moses? Did it not seek vengeance upon their foes? Was not the fire a fortress for Abraham? Did it not raise the smoke of despair in the heart of Nimrod? [Mawlana Rumi]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Good fortune will come to you only as you give. If you cannot renounce life completely you can at least free yourself from the love of riches and honors. [Farid uddin Attar]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
We want to live in peace. Without peace life is a drudgery. Peace is the fruit of an intimate harmony among the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual elements of the human person. Peace is not the absence of pain or pressure. Nor is it the absence of activity. Peace is not lying on a beach without a worry in the world. Peace is not born by doing nothing. This peace I speak of is a certainty in my heart and mind that I am using my life for the worthy purpose--------that each day I am able to love more than the day before, that I am becoming a better person each day, that in my own way I am touching and improving the lives of others. It is maintained with the conviction that the way I am spending the energies of my life makes sense. [Kelly, The Rhythm of Life]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Patience comes in three stages: first, one learns not to follow the baser self; second, one learns to content oneself with one's fate; finally, one surrenders oneself to the Master's will and discovers within love and compassion, the greatest of all achievements. [Imam Ghazali]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have it. Never buy what you do not need.
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
Allah has a water container in the earth, which is the heart. The hearts that Allah likes most are those which are the strongest, the purest, and the softest--------strongest in religion, purest in trust, and softest towards one's brother. [Ali radi Allah anhu]
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
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11th Aug 2006 Longevity: 66% Location: Stamford Hill Posts: 445 Gender: Unspecified Reputation: 292 |
When you really change your attitude your sins will be forgiven. Through obedience you can attain felicity. [Shaykh Farid uddin al Attar]
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