"The Problem With The Singularity Is That Once We Are In The Upper Quadrant, I.e., Once We Have Gone

Wake up and open your curtains. Your windows too.

Drink some tea or coffee, whatever pleases you. Notice every sip.

Have some fresh fruit and finish breakfast feeling full.

Stand outside and feel the air. Cool or warm, it will make you feel real.

Get some exercise. Yoga to soothe, running to breathe, lifting for strength.

Take care of your body. Have a nice shower and pamper as much as you want afterward. 

If you’re going to work, remember you have the chance to make anyone’s day or to ruin it. Act accordingly. 

Weed out the bad language. It’s only creating tension in your body and mind. Kind words are infinitely more appreciated.

Take some time each day to improve your mind. Keep reading that great book. Listen to an incredible piece of music. Practice an instrument or a skill. The progress is its own reward.

Pictures will help you remember how wonderful life is. But spend less time on your phone and more time seeing the world face to face. 

Go to sleep knowing that you have done well. Tomorrow is there with room to become even better.

-Notes to myself on how to become a better person this summer.

O Allah, make me good for myself and the people around me.

paralysis from fear is far worse than potential failure or rejection! the anguish of a life not fully lived will weigh heavily on your heart at the end of it all!

Heart is connected to the face!

‎Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:

‎ “What is in the heart from light and darkness, good and bad, a lot of it flows to the face and the eye, and they are the greatest things connected to the heart.

‎ That is why it is narrated on the authority of Uthman رضي الله عنه, that he said: “No one is hid his secrets except Allah reveals it on the pages of his face and the slips of his tongue.”

‎ [الاستقامة (1/355)]

becoming and becoming and becoming

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The part where Zachariah (AS) started to question the possibility of things after Allah sent him glad tidings of a son whose name will be John.

Zachariah (AS) thought his wife’s barrenness and him being old will make it impossible for them to have a child.

An Angel said to him “it will be, your lord says ‘it’s easy for Me, for I created you before, while you were nothing’” (Surah Maryam: 9)

Now I’m thinking about all the times I ask Allah for certain things and because of the current trajectory of my life, I sometimes rethink my request because will this be possible???

It’s so easy for us to forget about the greatness and might of our Lord. This is the same Rabb who created the heavens and earth from nothing.

There is no limit to his bounties.

Ibn al-Jawzī (رحمه الله) said:

“I do not know of something more beneficial than isolating from people; you don’t come across anyone except one who complains about a calamity, or is envious of a blessing, or looking for your faults.”

[Ṣayd al-Khāṭir (p. 275)]