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Let not your tongue mention the shame of another
For you yourself are covered in shame and all men have tongues.
If your eye falls upon the sins of your brother
Shield them and say: “O [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Let not your tongue mention the shame of another
Posted in Poetry, Quotes, Reminders on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A definition of thankfulness
Posted in Quotes on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When Junayd was aged seven, Sari took him on the pilgramage to Mecca. At the mosque a group of religious leaders were discussing the meaning of thankfulness. Each leader expressed his own view. Then Sari said to Junayd “you must express your view.”
Junayd said “thankfulness means not using the blessings and gifts he has bestowed [...]
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Posted in Heart Soother, Ibn Atallah, Quotes, Rabia al Adawiyah, Rumi on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“How numerous Your favours bestowed upon me,
Favours of gifts and grace and assistance.
Your love is now my only desire and my ultimate bliss.”
– Rabia
“Sometimes in order to help, He makes us cry.
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake.”
– Rumi
“If you wish for light, be ready to receive light.
Nourish your ego, and [...]
Al Inshiqaq 1-5/6
Posted in Quran on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
إِذَا السَّمَاء انشَقَّتْ
وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
وَإِذَا الْأَرْضُ مُدَّتْ
وَأَلْقَتْ مَا فِيهَا وَتَخَلَّتْ
وَأَذِنَتْ لِرَبِّهَا وَحُقَّتْ
When the sky is rent asunder
And hearkens to (the Command of) its Lord, and it must needs (do so);-
And when the earth is flattened out
And casts forth what is within it and becomes (clean) empty
And hearkens [...]
Parents: O Allaah, if You knew that I did that for Your sake, then open a way for us through which we can see the sky.
Posted in Hadith, Heart Soother, Reminders on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with them both) narrated that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“Three men went out walking and rain began to fall on them. They entered a cave in a mountain, then a rock fell (blocking the [...]
We find fault with the world, while the faults lie in our own selves.
Posted in Quotes, Reminders on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We find fault with the world, while the faults lie in our own selves.
The world is not at fault; except that we are full of flaws.
We make fun of the world for no reason,
But if others spoke about us, we were no better than be mocked at.
A wolf does not eat the flesh of another [...]
Patience in making dua
Posted in Duas, Heart Soother, Reminders on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you make intense supplication
and the timing of the answer is delayed,
do not despair of it.
His reply to you is guaranteed;
but in the way He chooses,
not the way you choose,
and at the moment He desires,
not the moment you desire.
The Hikam of Ibn ‘Ata’llah
I made my hope a stairway to Your forgiveness
Posted in Imam Shafi, Poetry on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When my heart was hardened, and my courses constrained; I made my hope a stairway, to Your forgiveness. My sin burdened me heavily,but when I measured it by Your forgiveness, Lord, Your forgiveness was the greater.
(Imam Shafi’i in his final sickness)
