Balm

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom.
But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

Rumi

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Sweetness

Find the sweetness in your own heart.
that you may find the sweetness in every Heart.

~ Rumi

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“The intelligent and refined find no rest in dwelling in one place,

So leave your homeland and travel far away!

Travel and you will meet new people replacing those left behind,

And tire yourself out, because it makes life worth living!

I have seen that water stagnates when it stands still,

Yet when it runs it is sweet and pure.

And if the lion left not its land,

it would not catch its prey

And if the arrow left not the bow,

it would not hit its aim

And if the sun moved not across the horizon,

People the world over would have tired of the sky.”

– Imam Shafi

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Don’t give up for lack of presence.

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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If you don’t find me in Jannah, then ask about me…

Surely the people of Jannah when they enter Jannah and they don’t find those companions of theirs who were with them upon good in this world, then verily they will intercede for them in front of Allah Ta’ala and they will say:

“O Rabb we have brothers who used to read salaah and fast with us, we do not see them!”

Allaah, jalla wa’alaa, will say:

“Go to the fire and take out any person who had even an atoms amount of Imaan in their heart!” ♥
[A similar narration is available in both Bukhari and Muslim from the hadith of Abu Sa’eed Al-Khudari concerning the intercession of the believers on the day of Judgment]

And Hassan Basri, rahimahu Allah, has said:

“Have lots of believing friends because they will be able to intercede for you on the day of Qiyaamah”

Ibnul Jawzi, rahimahu Allah, said :

“If you don’t find me with you in Jannah then ask about me, so u should say :

‘ O our Rabb so and so slave of yours used to remind us about you”

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Where the light enters

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi

“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
― Rumi

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
― Rumi

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It is Him who is remembering you

Know that when you remember your Lord, it is Him who is remembering you. ♥

~Habib Khadim As-Saqqaf

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Trials

“Trials are a wake-up call for the forgetful ones, a means of achieving reward for the patient ones, and a reminder of blessings for everyone.”
[Al-asan b. Sahl]

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