The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.
If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.
If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.
For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.
You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.
If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.
Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.
You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."
Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.
My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.
Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.
