رَبَّنَا لَا تُزِغْ قُلُوبَنَا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَيْتَنَا

really just want to live a quiet life with quiet, genuine, humble people. not interested in loud people or dramatic situations. just want peace, and the sun, and tenderness, and warmth.

But the thing I will never admit to anyone who's met me is how desperately I want to be loved, I don't think I could say it. How I want someone to hold my wrists and kiss my palms and smile at me, and want me, I want to be wanted and I don't know how long poetry or songs will substitute for being wanted.

“What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.”

— Shaykh Omar Suleiman

Reflections in the sun | Sahara Desert, Morocco (2015)

i love ppl w calm minds who really try to understand others point of view

do you ever pretend like you didn’t see something so the other person doesn’t feel embarrassed 

“A persons tongue can give you the taste of his heart” - Ibn al-Qayyim

I hope when I have kids one day that I teach them to see religion as a source of comfort rather than a chore or something that they believe because I tell them to