Ayatullah Bahjat: “People reach only ten percent of their wishes in this world. You can barely find anyone who is getting things to go exactly the way they would like. Any pleasure in this life will be accompanied with a lot of bitterness and ‘the sting’ of hardship. If a person understands and accepts that this life will not always be the way they want it, they won’t get as angry over the different problems that come their way. This is because they have accepted that this world is a place of hardship and nothing more than that!”
“Flowers teach us that nothing is permanent: not their beauty, not even the fact that they will inevitably wilt, because they will still give new seeds. Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes, grows old, dies, and is reborn.”
making mistakes doesn’t make you a bad person. it just makes you a person who made mistakes. contrary to popular belief mistakes are vital for personal growth and when you admit to them and hold yourself accountable you are helping yourself become a better person not just for yourself, but also for the people around you. don’t look at your mistakes like failures, look at them as lessons and recognise what you need to learn from them. care for your mistakes the same as you care for your success.
“Whoever desires to live and die like me and to reside forever in Paradise which Allah has promised to me, then he should adore Ali, for he is the one who would never fail to guide you nor would he let you go astray.”
— Prophet Muhammad (S), Ihqaq al-Haqq, vol.5, p.107; Hakim’s Mustadrak vol.3, p. 128 (via elhaammagazine)
"If there is an inflammation in your eye, you try to cure it. This is because your eye has tasted the sweetness of this world, its beauty, and you do not want to risk losing it. But your insight, your perspicacity has been suffering for forty years and you do not care for it?"
- Ibn Ataillah
