How To Be More Confident

I sing your song beneath the moon

Like a sweater, do you wear me too?

i procrastinate until it’s not even procrastinating anymore it’s just stupidity

Ye jo mohabbatein hoti hai na, insaan ko barbaad kr deti hai

Rona chahain aur ro na paye,

Aisi hai tanhaai.

I want to cry but I cannot,

Such is loneliness.

NFAK

‎Muadh Ibn Jabal رضي الله عنه said:

‎“The Son of Ādam does nothing to rescue himself from the punishment of Allah better than the remembrance of Allah.”

‎[Al-Muwatta, 490]

إِنَّ مِنْ أَحَبِّكُمْ إِلَيَّ وَأَقْرَبِكُمْ مِنِّي مَجْلِسًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَحَاسِنَكُمْ أَخْلَاقًا وَإِنَّ أَبْغَضَكُمْ إِلَيَّ وَأَبْعَدَكُمْ مِنِّي مَجْلِسًا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ الثَّرْثَارُونَ وَالْمُتَشَدِّقُونَ وَالْمُتَفَيْهِقُونَ

Verily, the most beloved and nearest to my gathering on the Day of Resurrection are those of you with the best character. Verily, the most reprehensible of you to me and the furthest from my gathering on the Day of Resurrection will be the pompous, the extravagant, and the pretentious.

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

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]