It’s amazing how Allah can use bad things in your life for something good. Be grateful for every situation. Sometimes the process might be painful and hard, but Allah’s plan is always the best. Trust Allah!
“It’s all coming. Don’t rush it. Get ready because everything will change. Prove now that you’re learning the lessons for the next level. Get ready!”— Tony Gaskins
“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“My lord, Increase me in knowledge”— Holy Qur’an, Ta’Ha 114
If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. If they’re mean to you, be kind to them. If they curse and swear in your presence, offer a good word to them. Don’t allow their bad actions to affect your good manners. Rise above them.
Mufti Ismail Menk
That’s enough
Reblogged from naderdawah
Behind every tear is a cleansing of the eyes, and in every spot you’ve ever been stabbed, is a healing, and the creation of skin stronger than it was.
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more.
You’re doing just fine.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (via philosophybits)
I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect - because that’s natural and that’s real.
Expectations about someone will often result in disappointments. The higher the expectation we have about such and such person, the greater the disappointment that we will have, that is, if we find out the truth, that we are wrong about them.
I personally have made some expectations about some people in my life. Often, I find myself sulking in deep regrets and disappointments as the characters that I expected in them turned out to be pseudo-existent or to put it simply, absent. SubhanAllah, you really learned best when you’re broken inside.
“The wound is the place where Light enters you.” - Rumi
I guess that is one of Allah’s ways to show me that there is no such thing as a Perfect Expectation in others because the only One who deserves to have that is, Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala.
We must remember. We, ourselves, are not perfect. So are those people whom we thought are great, amazing, wonderful, et cetera. We often forget that people become great not because of who they are but it is entirely because of Allah SWT. It is the Greatness of Allah SWT that makes them seem as great. Without Allah SWT, the people will not be what we perceive them to be.
So whenever we feel like making expectations about others, please remember not to look so highly on that particular person as if he or she is God. People’s greatness will not be possible without the Greatness of Allah SWT. What is more, we must look into our hearts and ask ourselves of our intention, what do I want to gain from living in this temporary world? How can I achieve it? From whom can it be realized?
May Allah SWT give us Hidayah and Tawfiq, aamiin…
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time…
Find someone who loves you well. Someone who never belittles you. Even in the heat of an argument. Someone who is gentle with you, but does not treat you like you are fragile. Someone who knows what you are capable of, and celebrates those pieces of you. Not someone who is intimidated by your strength. Someone who doesn’t make you feel guilty for being flawed. It is not love’s job to punish you. And remember the person you love is just as broken as you are when they fall short. No one is perfect – do not hold them to this standard. Find someone who is patient, forgiving, and apologetic. Someone who practices forgiveness freely and often. Love someone who is humble, kind, and empathetic. Not only with you, but with a beggar on the street, or a stranger in the supermarket. Common courtesy is important. Compassion is important. Kindness is important.