The Older I Get, The More I Need Time & Personal Space To Be As Boring As Possible

Kaveh Akbar, from Calling A Wolf A Wolf: Poems; “Heritage”

Imam Malik رحمه الله‎ describing the importance of holding firmly to the Sunnah:

“The Sunnah is like the ark of Nuh عليه السلام; whoever embarks on it will be successful and whoever remains behind, will drown.”

[مفتاح الجنة في الاحتجاج بالسنة]

ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib (رضي الله عنه)said:

“I will be patient even until my patience tires of my patience.”

Timeless seeds of Advice/Chapter 49

The Chess Players. Dir. Satyajit Ray. 1977.

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]

If it weren't for Islam, I would have lost my sanity long back. Islam keeps me afloat.

It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.

Beau Taplin (via quotemadness)

‏تمادينا بالتفكير ونسينا بأن الأقدار مكتوبة

We went too far in thinking and forgot that destinies are written.

- Mahmoud Darwish