If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. Allah delights to watch the soul grow. Perhaps we were put here to expand our souls through the experiences of life. When we nourish our soul, we automatically nourish our capacity to love another person.
No opposite can be known without its opposite. Having suffered a blow, you will know a caress. Allah created suffering and heartache so that joyful-heartedness might appear through its opposite.
Learn to hold loosely to all that is not eternal. Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. Time is the image of eternity. Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Unfortunately, we live in an age when matters of the spirit are neglected and, in some ways, looked down upon. Faith is a liberating force. Religion is a liberating force. Spirituality is a liberating force. It is natural for human beings to pray: we are naturally spiritual beings. We live in material world, but we are not solely material.
Prayer is a lot like love. We are born with a natural ability and capacity to love. This ability to love develops when we exercise it. We learn to love by loving. The only way to learn to pray is to pray. Books, teachers, guides, mentors, role models, and coaches all help to perfect our abilities, but there is no substitute for the actual practice----whether it is baseball, cooking, football, love, or prayer. Go to the woods of prayer. Go to the classroom of silence. From these places you will emerge capable of living life to the fullest-----attuned and empowered to live life deliberately.
A person who wishes to follow his desires and acquire Jannah at the same time, is like that person who plants an apple tree and then hopes for oranges.
You are holding a passport in your hands right now, with valid visas to higher levels of consciousness and more abundant living. But it is not enough just to have a passport. You must make the journey. Be confident. Do not be afraid. Have courage. Take it one step at a time. Make the journey. A life well invested has few regrets. A life lived richly has few apologies to make. Find the rhythm in life. As you begin to experience the power of the rhythm of life----help others discover the rhythm of life.
"Let your light shine." The legends, heroes, leaders, champions, and saints, who fill the pages of our history books, are just symbols of the goodness and greatness within us all. Do not let your life be like a shooting star that lights up the sky for only a brief moment. Let your life be like the sun, which always burns brightly in the heavens, bringing light and warmth to all those on earth. Live the life you were born to live! Let your light shine!
Once Khalifa Haroon Rasheed asked Imam Malik: "Wot is the evidence pointing 2 the existence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى?" Imam Malik replied: "Difference in languages, difference in pitches of voice, difference in singing are proof that Allah سبحانه وتعالى exists!"
What has passed by has come to an end. The pen has been lifted and the ink has dried. And the book has been closed, Llook back at your pass to learn A lesson from it but don't drown in it, Rather move forward and start all over again
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray- O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; And if truth be on his, I may follow him. -Imam Ash-Shafi (rahimullah)
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