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"Kad bi me neko upitao šta mi je na ovom svijetu najžalije ostaviti, rekao bih: sabaha, behara i iftara. Ko zna kakva se ljepota u tome krije, razumijet će." 🤍

Mula Mustafa Bašeskija

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In one of his writings on the Qur'an, ibn al-Qayyim mentioned the following beautiful point:

‎[قال تعالى : [إِنَّ رَبِّي رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ ‎] وقال سبحانه في سورة البروج [وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ] وما ألطف اقتران اسم الودود بالرحيم؛ وبالغفور، فإن الرجل قد يغفر لمن أساء إليه ولا يُحبُّه، وكذلك قد يرحم من لا يُحِبُّ، والربُّ تعالى يغفر لعبده إذا تاب إليه؛ ويرحمه ويُحبُّه مع ذلك، فإنه: إن الله يحب التوابين ، وإذا تاب إليه عبده: أحبَّه؛ ولو كان منه ما كان . ـ]

Allah said:

‎[إِنَّ رَبِّي رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ]

"My Lord is certainly Merciful, Loving" [Hud 90]

and He said in surah al-Burooj:

‎[وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ]

"And He is Forgiving, Loving" [al-Burooj 14]

How kind it is for Allah to pair the name al-Wadood - Loving - with al-Raheem - Merciful - and al-Ghafoor - Forgiving! For a person might forgive someone who wronged him without loving him. Likewise, a person might show mercy to someone that he does not love. But the Lord forgives His slave when he turns to Him in repentance, shows mercy to him, and in addition to that He loves him, for Allah loves those who repent. When one of His servants repents to Him, He loves him, regardless of what he did.

[al-Tibyan fee Ayman al-Qur'an pg 146]

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Imam Ash-Shafi’i رحمه الله said:

“If you have a friend who helps you in obedience to Allah, hold tightly to him, for finding such a friend is difficult, but parting with him is easy.”

📚 Hilyat al-Awliya’ (4/101)

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The scholar Ibn Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

"Do not dislike anything that Allah has chosen. Allah may choose something which contains great benefit that you are unaware of."

Explanation of Riyad as-Salihin (309/3)

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 Astaghfirullah al-‘Adheemal-ladhi la ilaha illa Huwal-Hayyul-Qayyum  (I seek the forgiveness of Allah the Mighty, Whom there is none worthy except Him, the Living, The Eternal)

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Phoebe Wahl

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“I’m becoming who I am and it’s the scariest thing I’ve ever done.” Posted from the PostSecret website.

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al-Shāfi’ī said:

A wise man wrote to another wise man 'O my brother you have been given knowledge, so do not tarnish your knowledge with the darkness of sins, lest you remain in darkness on the day the people of knowledge come forth with the light of their knowledge'

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O Allah! Grant me enough of what You make lawful so that I may dispense with what You make unlawful, and enable me by Your Grace to dispense with all but You.

‘Allahumm-akfini bihalalika ‘an haramika, wa aghnini bifadlika ‘amman siwaka.  

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Abū Ḥātim ar-Rāzī (رحمه الله):

‎«أربح التجارة ذكر الله، وأخسر التجارة ذكر الناس»

“The most profitable trade is the remembrance of Allah, and the most unprofitable trade is the remembrance of people.”

[Bahjat al-Majālis: 86]

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One of the salaf was asked,

“How is the relationship between you and your religion?”

He said, “it is shredded by sins, and I patch it with seeking forgiveness (isitighfār).

How excellent is the question

And how deep is the answer!.

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i cry my eyes out then i get up and pray

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The moment of enchantment: a rainbow in the valley beneath us

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“My Lord, put my heart at ease for me,

And ease my task for me.”

[20:25]