Don’t give up for lack of presence.
Keep moving your tongue in dhikr until your heart looks up to see what all the commotion is.
Don’t let your sins silence your heart from calling out to its Lord.
~ Khalid Yasin
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Don’t give up for lack of presence.
Posted in Dhikr, Heart Soother, Reminders on August 5, 2012| 3 Comments »
Never be without remembrance of Him
Posted in Dhikr, Quotes, Rumi on January 30, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Never be without remembrance of Him
For His remembrance gives strength and wings
To the bird of the Spirit.
~Rumi
Never be without remembrance of Him
Posted in Dhikr, Rumi on August 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Never be without remembrance of Him,
for His remembrance
gives strength and wings
to the bird of the Spirit.
If that objective of yours
is fully realized, that is
“Light upon Light”…
for His remembrance
gives strength and wings
to the bird of the Spirit.
If that objective of yours
is fully realized, that is
“Light upon Light”…
— Jelaluddin Rumi
Forgetting the remembrance of Allah is a death to their hearts
Posted in Arabic, Dhikr, Poetry on July 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
فنسيان ذكر الله موت قلوبهم**** واجسامهم قبل القبور قبور
Forgetting the remembrance of Allah is a death to their hearts
And their bodies are the graves before graves
Laa tatruk al dhikr…
Posted in Arabic, Dhikr, Ibn Atallah, Quotes, Reminders on May 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
يقول سيدي ابن عطاء الله السكندري : لا تترك الذكر لعدم حضورك مع الله فيه فغفلتك عن وجود ذكره أشد من غفلتك مع وجود ذكره . فعسى أن ينقلك من ذكر مع وجود غفلة إلى ذكر مع وجود يقظة ومن ذكر مع وجود يقظة إلى ذكر مع وجود حضور ومن ذكر مع وجود حضور إلى ذكر مع غيبة عما سوى المذكور وما ذلك على الله بعزيز
Do not leave the remembrance because of your lack of presence of heart with Allah therein, because your heedlessness of the remembrance of Allah is more harmful than your heedlessness during the remembrance of Allah. It may well be that He take you from remembrance in which there is heedlessness (ghaflah) to remembrance in which there is consciousness (yaqadhah); and from remembrance in which there is consciousness to remembrance in which there is presence of heart (hudoor); and from remembrance in which there is presence of heart to remembrance in which there is obliviousness to all but the One Remembered, “And that is not difficult for Allah.”
– The Hikam of Ibn Atallah
The best of your works
Posted in Dhikr, Hadith on April 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
“Shall I not tell you of the best of your works, the purest of them in the eyes of your Master, the highest in raising your rank, better than giving gold and silver, and better for you than to meet your enemy and smite their necks, and they smite yours?” They said, “This—what is it, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said: Dhikru Llahi ‘azza wa jall, “The remembrance of Allah Mighty and Majestic.”
(al-Mustadrak ‘ala al-Sahihayn, 1.496).
With all his heart
Posted in Dhikr, Quotes on February 14, 2009| 1 Comment »
He who remembers Allah with all his heart will find that everything other than Allah will leave his heart.
[Yahya bin Mu’adh]
Purification is half of eemaan [23]
Posted in Dhikr, Hadith, Imam Nawawi's Arba'een, Quran, Sabr, tagged charity, Dhikr, Hadith, iman, light, proof, purification, Quran, sabr, salah on February 6, 2009| 3 Comments »
On the authority of Abu Malik al-Harith bin ‘Asim al-Ash’ari, radiyallahu ‘anhu, who said:
The Messenger of Allah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said:
“Purification is half of iman (faith). Saying ‘Al-Hamdulillah’ (Praise be to Allah) fills the scales. Saying ‘Subhanallah wa al-Hamdulillahi’ (Exhalted be Allah and Praise be to Allah) fills the space between the heavens and the earth. Salah (prayer) is a light. Sadaqah (charity) is a proof. Sabr (patience) is a shining glory. The Qur’an is an argument either for you or against you. Everybody goes out in the morning and sell themselves, thereby setting themselves free or destroying themselves.”
Fa firroo ila-llaah 