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‎Ḥasan al-Baṣrī رحمه الله said:

‎“Man is ungrateful - he counts the disasters while forgetting the blessings of his Lord.”

‎[جامع البيان عن تأويل أي القرآن ٢٤/٥٥٧]

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Nothing makes me more emotional than when Allah answers my dua despite my sins.

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From all of the uncertainties that I am feeling right now, I know that once I’ll be back at your side everything will fade and be all right. I hope. I’m on pins and needles knowing that my transition phase is coming to an end. A beginning of a new chapter is coming and I am so scared witless. I hope everything will be worth it.

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I am having the saddest Ramadan as of late.

It's my last Ramadan here in Madinah, and I am all sorts of emotions while I'm processing my clearance. Also, I am doing the Marie Kondo thing with my things- thinking if the item gives enough joy to cargo or throw it away (I am so tempted to throw everything away at this point and I need to overthink first before deciding). I am SO distracted these days that I am so grateful that this week I couldn't fast, because, really, my iman is slacking right now.

I am about to end a chapter of my life and I don't even know how to feel about it. My anxiety makes my procrastinating habit worst. I am sad. I am happy. I am excited. I am scared. I am hopeful. I am grateful. I am everything at the same time.

I just pray. Pray so bad that this is the right thing to do. That all my sacrifice will be worth it. Ya Rabb. In the end, as long as we achieve the outcome, it will be worth it.

May Allah forgive my shortcomings and guide me and give me sabr. Ameen

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https://youtu.be/-RzI2Xt5PZk

Keepsake purposes ❤️

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Alam mo yung feeling na mula pa nung 2019 sinasalubong ng dalaw ko mga importante o special na araw para mag fasting o kaya gaya ng eid ganon? As. In. Salubong. Talaga. Akala ko nga na sa kasal ko meron ako e kasi that's how lucky I tend to be (sarcastic). So eto ako sobrang tagal nang hinihintay ang dalaw ko as in araaaw na ang nakalipas wala pa rin.. And then I realized..

Hinihintay kaya ng dalaw ko ang ashoora? 🙄

Seriously?

Ha ha

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not to be dramatic but life is feeling a lot like that time Edward broke up with Bella in twilight and Stephenie made all the chapters during the break up empty pages with just “September.” “October.” “November.” written at the top

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There’s art in existence. In the pictures, scenes and metaphors around us... I know a lot of people are uncomfortable as these viral pics of the haram being empty go around, but I feel like it’s kind of beautiful at the same time. There’s so many metaphors you could pull out from the scene, how drastic it was that everyone was pulled out but how beautiful and eerie the place glows and how well it will be cleansed. How sometimes something that makes us uncomfortable or makes us feel empty is just a shower of mercy to cleanse us of our sins. SubhanAllah even sickness and hardship cleanses you of your sins! Or how empty the place is in comparison to how it can get. Or the first thing I noticed... how it’s lowkey like a diagram of our heart. This beautiful emptiness that has so much potential, where Allah remains and the structures and spaces of worship are available and all that is needed for this place to come alive is the servant of Allah and their sincerity to worship. I can’t imagine how serene it must be for the few people who are allowed to do their tawaf and the whole space is just empty for them 😍... And the last thing I want to just say is about Makkah. Madinah. Saudi Arabia. One of our asaatidha told us: “you would rather live in a dunyah (world) where your heart resides in Makkah/Madinah, rather than live in Makkah/Madinah and your heart resides in the dunya.”

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. 📸 PC: Not sure but got it from twitter

#reflections #haramain #coronavirus #makkah #madinah #art #metaphor

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I imagine that moment

that sole intimate moment

between a servant and their Creator,

when they take a Quraan off the shelf after years and blow the dust off as their heavy heart takes a deep sigh...

I imagine dust and rust and darkness being blown off of their heart in that split second.

ان الحسنات يذهبن السيئات

Indeed, good deeds erase bad deeds.

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السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

May you all find the benefits of the connection you build with Allah’s favour towards Him. May your bounties be increased in this world and the next, may you always be shielded from evil and may you and yours be in the receiving end of all the goodness that is immediate and that which follows. Ameen

A famous writer was in his study room. He picked up his pen and started writing:

**Last year, I had a surgery and my gallbladder was removed. I had to stay stuck to the bed due to this surgery for a long time.*

*The same year I reached the age of 60 years and had to give up my favourite job in the Publishing company in which I had spent 30 years of my life

**The same year I experienced the sorrow of the death of my father.*

*And in the same year my son failedin his medical exams because he had a car accident. He had to stay in bed at hospital with the cast on for several days. The destruction of car was another loss.

At the end he wrote: Alas! It was such bad year!!

When the writer's wife entered the room, she found her husband looking sad lost in his thoughts. From behind his back she read what was written on the paper, left the room silently and came back with another paper which she placed on the side of her husband's writing.

The husband found the following written on the paper:

**Last year I finally got rid of my gall bladder due to which I had spent years in pain.*

**I turned 60 with sound health and got retired from my job. Now I can utilize my time to write something better with more focus and peace.

**The same year my father, at the age of 95, without depending on anyone or without any critical condition met his Creator.*

**The same year, God blessed my son with a new life. My car was destroyed but my son stayed alive without getting any disability.

**At the end she wrote: Last year was an immense blessing of God and it passed well!!*

See!! The same incidents but different viewpoints.

*Moral:* In our daily lives we must see that it's not happiness that makes us grateful but gratefulness that makes us happy.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for!!

Your current position is somebody's future expectation.

Your life now is somebody's prayer request.

Don't let the devil point at you that somebody is doing better than you. It is a strategy for ingratitude.

Anything you celebrate multiplies, anything you despise diminishes.

Appreciation is the vehicle for acceleration.

Gratitude is the lift to great altitude.

To see what God will do, you must acknowledge what God has done.

*Be Grateful to Allah the Al-Mighty as we end the previous year and pray and be hopefull to him for this year and future years 🙏🏽*