“Though excessive disobedience and rebellion
have estranged me from Thee,
the glad tidings of forgiveness and good pleasure
have made me feel intimate with Thee”
— Imam Sajjad (as)
“Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.” — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (as)
(Source: farcae, via the-bliss-of-being)
“Don’t grieve at the shattering. He breaks you, to build you. He deprives you, to give you (better).” — Yasmin Mogahed
(Source: sayeda313, via faithunitydiscipline)
“Struggle against your lower desires, overcome your anger, oppose your bad habits, purify your self, perfect your intellect, and bring to completion the reward that is with your Lord.” — Amirul Mou’mineen Ali ibn Abi Talib (A.S.)
(Source: thethinkerr, via 2allahireturn)
“How do you know if you’re ready for death? Mans greatest fear is death. I want to know that if I were to die right now what would my death be like? Would it be painful, would it be pleasurable, would it be sweet? Here is an answer: Your death will be exactly as your salat it to you right now. Why? Because when you pray salat what do you do? You go and meet Allah. When you die what happens? You go and meet Allah. If you dislike meeting Allah while you are in this world in the body why would you want to meet Allah when you leave the body? If salat is sweet to you right now your death would be sweet if you died right now. If you eagerly wait for salat, then when death comes to you, you will eagerly wait to be released from this cage and soar to new heights. If your salat is a burden on you right now, death will be a burden on you if you die right now. If salat is painful, death will be painful. Look at your salat, improve your salat, and you will improve your connection to Allah, because both of these are nothing but a meeting with Allah.” — Khalil Jaffer
“My brother, if you desire the path of sincerity, flee from the clatter and clinks of fame, and flee from the clamour that comes with being a celebrity. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. Or be like the foundations of a building; were it not for the foundation, no wall could be erected and no house could be established, but yet no-one sees the foundation.”
“Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.” — St. Augustine of Hippo
“There are secrets lying behind so many of the actions we encounter daily – be they major incidents or minor. Sometimes it becomes evident to one in the future, sometimes it doesn’t. the key is patience i.e. patience is the polite mode of decorum before Allah’s wisdom.” — Dr. Farrokh
“Don’t run away from grief, O soul
Look for the remedy inside the pain.
because the rose came from the thorn
and the ruby came from a stone.”
— Rumi
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أَمَرْتَنَا أَنْ تَعْفُوَ عَمَّنْ ظَلَمَنَا وَ أَنْتَ أَوْلـى بِالْعَفوِ وَ قَدْ ظَلَمْنَا أَنْفُسَنَا…
“You have ordered us to forgive the person who oppresses us, however You are much more worthy to forgive us who have been oppressive to our own selves…”
” — Dua Abu Hamza
“If one realizes that Allah, the most Praised and Exalted One, is always and in any condition more beautiful than everything beautiful, he will never then abandon feeling comfortable with Him.” — Ayatollah Bahjat (r.a.)
I asked my mentor- who was the best philosopher, ‘arif, and experienced teacher and the most perfect spiritual physician I have ever seen in my life- which one of the physical acts of worship from his experience is more effective to the heart?
He replied: “Long prostration for about an hour or ¾ of an hour in which you repeatedly say: “لا إلهَ إلا أنتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظّالِمِيْنَ
When you recite it, you should observe your soul imprisoned in the jail of this world, fastened with the chains of immoral behaviour. During the prostration, you should glorify Allah and confess that you have been unfair to yourself, not your Lord.”
Ayatollah Tabrizi
“Imam Mahdi (aj) is Allah’s seeing eye and hearing ear and hears our words before our own selves. When we utter a word, the sound from it comes from our mouths toward our ears, there is a distance between the mouth and the ear. He (aj) precedes this distance and hears what we say before we even hear it. Considering this, can we really do something without him not being aware? Can we do something without him knowing?” — Ayatollah Bahjat (ra)