It's important for us to never give up. You don't know how close you are to the end. Imagine a person digging a tunnel for example and right when they are near the end, they suddenly give up thinking that, “I don't know how long this is going to carry on for.” Had they carried on for a minute longer, they would have broken through.
My heart was swollen with sorrow and there was no other way to relieve the pain than to simply make wudu, sit on my prayer mat and cry. No one on earth was able to soothe me or give me any answers that would ease the pain. Only Allah could do that.
The message from Abraham's life is simple- the love of Allah trumps all other loves- love for his wife, love for a son, love for life (interestingly all halal sources of love). He was willing to keep his wife and son in the middle of a desert, all because Allah asked Him to.
Do not be discouraged by your countless sins. Even if they are as much as the ocean foam, God will not mind forgiving them all for you as long as you turn to Him repentantly and hurry your steps for His Mercy and Pardon. Past ingratitude should be no barrier to sincere repentance.
Allah has created the future and understands intimately what it holds, just as He has created our past and present. Even though Allah knows and has ordained what will happen in the future, we still have free will in the present. We have the will to choose...
Allah loves you just for trying. Allah loves you just for the effort. And if you think about how beautiful and profound that is, then it actually helps you to repent and helps you to make dua. So there is a very beautiful explanation for this verse from the spiritual...
What is the least a person will have in Paradise? The answer is found in a hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim. Prophet Moses ibn Imran (peace be upon him) asked Allah about who is the one who has the least in Paradise? He’s informed that he is a man who...
Allah doesn’t just say, “Don’t be sad”, He actually went to the root cause; the root cause was some kind of failure, some kind of disappointment that kind of wore you down, and it started taking away your own confidence, your own belief that you can actually do better…
These are all parts of the test of Allah for us. Why? In order to see what do you do when you don’t have. What do you do when things don’t go according to your liking? Do you do that which is prohibited in order to earn or in order to benefit yourself? Or do you stick to the law of Allah?
We know in the fast, while we try to wean ourselves from these attachments to the world, the difficulty that lies therein is, yes, that is part of what happens in this form of worship, but we know that there is a reward that comes from Allah Almighty...
According to the sheikh here, the sunrise in the beginning brings sunrise in the end. How can I make the sun rise on me in the beginning of any work? By returning to Allah Almighty in the beginning of any endeavor. This is inspired by a number of Sunnahs...
This step of the journey means that you learn patience. All the Prophets had gone through trials so that they learn patience. The word that Prophet Jacob mentioned in chapter Yusuf, “a beautiful patience”.
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