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Something to reflect on
Everyone is in the world as a guest, and his money is but a loan. The guest must go sooner or later and the loan must be returned. - Ibn Masud
A seeker went to ask a sage for guidance on the Sufi way. The sage counseled, "if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and see us." ~ Jami
Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them. ~Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
"The sun never says to the earth,'You owe me.'Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky." ~ Hafiz
May God steal from you
All that steals you from Him.
Let me hide in You
From everything that distracts me from You,
From everything that comes in my way
When I want to run to You. - Rabi’a al-Adawiyya
You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are. ~Ibn Al-Jawzee
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. ~ Sufi proverb
"God is nearer to man than the jugular vein" Qu'ran 50:16
The Ways of God are as many as the breaths of Human beings. ~ Traditional Sufi Saying
"I won't serve God like a laborer expecting wages." ~ Rabi'a
All your suffering comes from desiring things that cannot be had. Stop desiring and you won't suffer. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
"Wherever you find yourself, whether in worship or in ordinary life, contemplate God - in what you eat, what you drink, whom you marry, always aware that he is both the Contemplated and the Contemplator. ~ Abd Al-Kader
Food for Thought:
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. The measure of a happy life is not from the fewer or more suns we behold, the fewer or more breaths we draw, or meals we repeat, but from having once lived well, acted our part handsomely, and made our exit cheerfully.
Turn to God and seek forgiveness if you wish to prevail. Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. [Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani]
Food for Thought:
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. To be social is to be forgiving.
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God in his heart and life. [Hakim]
On the day of Resurrection, nothing will weigh heavier upon the scales than good character. [Abu Dawud & Tirmidhi]
If you were to rely on Allah as He should be relied on, He would provide for you as He provides for the birds. They go out in the morning hungry and return in the evening full. (Tirmidhi).
The salat is light, alms giving is proof (of one's faith), and to be steadfast is as good as light, and the Holy Quran is a plea in your favor or against you (as the case may be).Every one begins his morning ready to bargain with his soul as a steak and frees it or loses it. [Muslim]
Food for Thought
Anger is a killing thing, it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before, it takes something from him.
Your life should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah. [Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi]
The spiritual warrior is the one who breaks an idol, and the idol of each person is his ego. [Al Qushayri]
The person of bad character is like a piece of broken pottery, which can neither be patched up nor returned to clay. [Imam Ghazali]
Food for Thought
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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