The Best Thing I Ever Did Was Believe In Myself

Baaz aa, baaz aa, har anche hastee baaz aa. Gar kaafeer u gabr u bot parastee baaz aa. Een dargaahe maa dargaahe nowmeedee neest,Saad baar agar towba shikastee baaz aa.

Come again come again whatever you are come again, if you're a kafir or idol- worshiper come again. This home of ours is not a home of hopelessness, even if you've repented one hundred times, come again.

Perfecting one's intention for Allah's sake, is a lifetime's work.

Zainab Cobbold (Lady Evelyn Murray) was a Scottish Muslim diarist, traveller and noblewoman who was known for her conversion to Islam in the Victorian era.

Cobbold spent much of her childhood in Algiers and Cairo in the company of Muslim nannies. She considered herself a Muslim from a young age despite not officially professing her faith until later.

— excerpt from Pilgrimage to Mecca by Zainab 'Evelyn' Cobbold

Her story is interesting because it provides a peek into the lives of Victorian-era Muslims of Britian, such as herself and other historic pioneers such as Abdullah Quillam, Lord Headley and Marmaduke Pickthall, among others.

TASTE OF CHERRY ‘طعم گيلاس‎, Ta’m-e gīlās’ (1997) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Allah swt sees your daily struggles, He knows your internal dilemmas, He hears your silent questions, He recognizes that you're trying and He appreciates your weak attempts to strive in His path. He would never let your efforts go astray. The reward is coming. The relief is coming. The faraj is coming. Keep going my dear. Never stop trying. Never stop striving. Never stop walking towards Allah swt.

I have a habit of changing my perfume after major life events, so that way if I ever want to go back to a certain time period in my life, I just have to buy a bottle of perfume that will be full of memories and nostalgia

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“When a person does not have enough good deeds to reach a certain level in Jannah, but Allah wants him to attain that level, then Allah tests him and puts him through difficult trials so that Allah may make him reach that level (in Jannah).”

[Sahih Ibn Hibban; Al Ihsan, Hadith: 2908]

Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله:

“Lofty ranks cannot be reached except with trials.”

[Majmu’ al-Fataawa v25, p302]