The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.
We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.
I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.
Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
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 tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll have what you love forever.