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 withou...
Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.
The mind replays what the heart can't delete.
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.
The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.
She stood up. Something inside her had changed. "It was finally time," she thought. It was finally time to leave the past in the past. And move on. She took her first step. It felt like walking for th...
Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).
The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away
I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to sp...
Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too...
To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found...
Let go of your grudges. Let the bitterness die tonight. Make a decision today that it’s time to move on. And begin again. New, this time. Never forget that what has passed you by was never meant to be...
Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of givi...
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tes...
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the cor...
And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals — the more mo...
