1. "But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.
If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His sun. He can transform what was once your greatest weakness into your greatest strength, and a means of growth, purification and redemption. Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives."
[Yasmin Mogahed, Take Back Your Heart]
2. "Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days, whenever each day passes then part of you has gone." [Hassan al-Basri]
3. "Know murid, that the heart commits sins which are uglier, fouler and more offensive than those committed by the senses [...]
Know that hearing and sight are two open doors, whatever enters through them reaches the heart. How many a thing does a man hear or see, which he should not have and which having entered the heart prove difficult to remove. For the heart is rapidly affected by what enters it and when it becomes so, the effect is difficult to erase."
[Imam Abdullah bin Alawi Alhaddad]
4. "When your heart is hardened by other than Allah, then make dhikr until nothing remains other than Allah." [Shaykh Muhammad al-Hashimi]
5. "Renunciation of the world is followed by peace; its desire brings sorrow. Restrain your desires and discipline your self." [Rabiah al-Adawiyah]
6. "Bear in mind that those who carry others' secrets to you might bear yours to others. Do not give such tactless people any chance to learn even the smallest details of your private concerns." [Fethullah Gulen]
7. "That part of your life that has gone by is irreplaceable, and that which has arrived is priceless." [Ibn Ataillah]
8. "Iblis fears nothing more than the light emanating from the believer's heart. Thus it is that those who are detached from worldly desires can never fall prey to his mischief." [Abu Sa'id Kharraz]
9. "Taking pains to remove the pains of others is the true essence of generosity."
[Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a.]
10. "For those with spiritual insight, everything they lay eyes upon have within it a lofty message and a gentle reminder." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
11. "The pain that comes from criticism is felt only by people whose whole life and care is for this world. For those who care for the Hereafter, criticism is a gift and a cause of salvation and peace." [Imam Birgivi]
12. "Darkness is not dispelled by fighting it, but rather by spreading the light, when light comes out, darkness recedes." [Mufti Rafi Osmani]
13. "Travel not from creature to creature, otherwise you will be like a donkey at the mill. Rather go from creatures to the Creator." [Ibn Athoillah al-Iskandari]
14. "If you cannot be of benefit to the people, then do not harm them; if you cannot make them happy, then do not make them sorrowful; if you cannot praise them, then do not disparage them." [Yahya ibn Mu'adh]
15. "He who remembers Allah with all his heart will find that everything other than Allah will leave his heart." [Yahya bin Mu'adh]
16. "Wonder of wonders! How is it that the same people who leave food out of fear of sickness cannot leave sin out of fear of the Hereafter." [Yahya bin Mu'adh]
17. "The best of people are those who, after being generous to people, seek generosity only from Allah." [Abu Hafs al Haddad]
18. "O' Son of Adam! Allah has nourishingly created you for Him alone, yet you so desire to belong to others." [Sayyidina Uthman r.a.]
19. "Your need for repentance is greater than your need for food, water, and shelter, for sins are veiling you from beholding the Unseen and stand between you and the Beloved." [Shaykh Abdul Khaliq al-Shabrawi]
20. "When He loosens your tongue with a request, then know that He wants to give you something." [Ibn Athoillah]
21. "If there is a good deed which is difficult, hold on to it, for in the end, the good deed will remain and the difficulty will perish." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
22. "Glad tidings to the one who abandons the Dunya before it abandons him, and built his grave before he enters it, and pleased his Lord before he met Him." [Abdullah ibn Abbas r.a.]
23. "The losses that you suffer because of your silence can be easily compensated for, but the losses that arise out of excessive loose talk are difficult to requite." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
24. "Good character consists in three traits: avoiding that which is forbidden, seeking that which is permitted, and being generous to one's family." [Imam al-Ghazali]
25. "The most noble of mankind in this world are the generous, and the most noble in the afterlife are the God-fearing." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
26. "One of the most basic requirements of repentance is that the person who sinned is obligated to avoid people, places, and circumstances associated with that sin." [Umm Salah]
27. "No deed arising from a renouncing heart is small, and no deed arising from an avaricious heart is fruitful." [Ibn Athoillah al-Iskandari]
28. "The past and almost all that was in your possession during the past is not with you now; you may thus rationally come to the conclusion that the present and all that is in your possession will also leave you -- make the most of it." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
29. "Be with people in such a way that if you should die, they should weep for you, and if you live, they should long for you." [Ali bin Abi Thalib r.a.]
30. "Our living in this world will inevitably bring us tests. Those tests are subtle and open, they occur in great and small things. Through these tests, God shows which of us truly believe, and which of us are empty claimants." [Imam Zaid Shakir]
31. "The eyes that shine with the light of Allah will give light to the eyes that look upon them." [Abu Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulaimi]
No comments:
Post a Comment