You deserve to be surrounded by the souls who bring out your soft side — not your survival side.

" The main objective of teaching Islam to children should be to create a major positive change in their psychospiritual attitudes and give them general, comprehensible concepts about Islam; not simply to fill their heads with abstract, inert, religious material. "

- The Dilemma of Muslim Psychologists, Malik Badri.

"As the legend goes, Muhammad (Pbuh) awoke one day to the sounds of the Azaan, the Muslim daily call to prayer. Preparing to attend, he began to dress himself; however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed."

"The sweat on your forehead as you walk to Dhuhr is greater than your tears in Taraweeh, for the first is mandatory and the second is commendable. It's a scam to sleep through Dhuhr or Asr in Ramadhan, then exhaust yourself in Taraweeh and Tahajjud prayers. These are all signs that the outwardly appearances have hijacked our lives. Be Careful. Remember. A single obligation is superior to standing at night for all of Ramadhan."

— Sh. ash-Shinqitī (حفظه الله)

Ask Allah by His Names

YA WADOOD!

I ask You for Your love and the love of those who love You, and for the action that will cause me to attain Your love so make Your love more beloved to me than myself and my beloved.

YA GHAFFAAR!

Rinse my soul of sins that hide beneath the skin – the sins that no one knows of, except You…Separate the layers around my bones and wash my heart from the evil that makes it dark.

YA RAHMAN!

Grant me mercy that I starve my soul of. You have more mercy in You than the sin in me so free my soul of self-limiting beliefs so I can feel as light as a feather.

YA HAAFIDH!

Protect me from the perpetual civil war within me in which many souls are fighting to survive – torn between dunya and aakhirah, destroying each other in the process…

YA MUSAWWIR!

Colour me a purposeful self so I can comprehend the reason why am I here in this dunya and utilise this limited time in my hands for what yields forever…

YA MU’TEE!

Free me from the endless longing of human warmth, acceptance, and approval – so I can depend on no one but You, so I don’t chase after dunya and my heart long for you – even when I have everything from the dunya in my mortal hands.

YA NASEER!

Help me out of every constriction and reduction, obstruction and destruction, addiction and affliction. And help me hang onto the hope that the help is near when I rush through the process.

YA JAMEEL!

You’re Beautiful and You love beauty so beautify my soul that beautifies the vessel it’s kept in. Help me see the beauty in things when everything seems ugly.

YA RAFEEQ!

You’re Gentle and Kind and you have put beauty in generosity, so when I lose my patience and I’m pushed to the edge of my kindness, pull me back and pour buckets of softness in my heart so it can pump with ease and let others breathe the breeze…

YA RAQEEB!

You’re closer to me than my jugular vein, but if I pull back and my heart disconnects, pump the blood through my veins so I can feel the pain – the pain of being far away from You and the pain of being so numb. The pain of apathy and the pain of a cold heart.

YA MUJEEB !

You respond whenever a servant calls upon You so please accept…accept…accept!

بلغنَّاه لا فاقدين ولا مفقودين يارب

Ishq e khalq ki inteha, Hai Ishq e Khaliq ki ibtida.

The peak of love for the humans, is the first step towards the love for the Divine!

"tum jo itna muskura rahe ho, kya gham hai jisko chupa rahe ho."

"how is it so that you are smiling so much, what is the sorrow that you are hiding?"

-Kaifī A'zmī

"في عصر النكبات ، أنت لحظة سلام".

In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.

I think the greatest form of intimacy is to understand someone.

“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

— iambrillyant