[taqwatawheedtales]

This Arabic poem will find you when you need it most

“إذا كانت نيتك ‘لا أبرح حتى أبلغ’ فلا بُد أن ‘تصبر على ما لم تُحِط به خبرًا’”

If your intention is, ‘I will not give up until I reach,’ then you must ‘be patient with what you cannot comprehend.’

[shisasan]

Oh God, I’m so tired. 6 July, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[ghvrabaaaa]

Put Allah first, pray on time, make your parents happy, treat people good and watch how your life changes for the good

🫶🏻

[ghvrabaaaa]

Perhaps Allaah allows us to taste the bitterness of betrayal and the solitude of loneliness,

so that our hearts may awaken to the truth—

that reliance upon Him is the only certainty.

People will leave, even those dearest may wound us,

but Allaah remains, ever Merciful, ever Just.

So flee to Him in sorrow and in joy,

rely upon Him in weakness and in strength,

for He alone never abandons.

[willingtobe]

when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"

[strokeofserenity]

Life has humbled me so much. I do not wish bad on anyone and neither do I want revenge. I just need a lot of people to stay away from me.

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[ghvrabaaaa]

Whoever is truthful towards Allaah in all of his affairs, Allaah will make for him (bless him bountifully) more than he will make for others, and the meaning of this Truthfulness is only complete with correct sincerity (Ikhlaas) and true trust (Tawakkul) ; so the most truthful of people is the one whose Ikhlaas is correct and also his Tawaakkul.

- [lbn Al Qayyim, Kitaab Al Fawaaid Pg 228]

[hedgehog-moss]

If you genuinely enjoy being alone, do you ever wonder if it is an inherent part of your character or if it stems from feeling inescapably lonely in the first place until you taught yourself to enjoy the peace and happiness one can find in solitude? what if the reason you now prefer & choose solitude at every turn is because you were a very lonely child, or teenager, not by your own choice, and that’s how you learnt to thrive and grow, so you no longer know if you can do that around people? There might also be an element of personal pride, an unconscious “you can’t fire me I quit” point when your brain decided to switch your feelings about solitude from distress to relief. I often find myself defending my love of being alone, to people who worry that I can’t possibly be happy to live in an isolated house in the woods; I insist that I do! I really do specifically enjoy the isolated factor and chose to live here because of it, but then I wonder how to differentiate an ingrained love of solitude from an acquired ability to thrive off unchosen loneliness, to learn from it and be nourished by it; to what extent it might be a form of contentment built on a bedrock of resignation.

[ghvrabaaaa]

‎سَيَفْتَحُ اللهُ بَابًا كُنْتَ تَحْسَبُهُ *** مِنْ شِدَّةِ الْيَأْسِ لَمْ يُخْلَقْ بِمِفْتَاحٍ

Allaah will open a door which, in the midst of your despair, you thought was created without a key.

[ghvrabaaaa]

After death, you will not carry with you what you got, but what you gave..

[ghvrabaaaa]

بعض البشر مثل التاريخ لا يعود أبدا ولا ننسى..

Some people are like history never returning nor forgotten.

[ghvrabaaaa]

“Everyone does what he was created for, going where he was destined for, and none can overcome Allaah’s qadar and will, and Allaah is the doer of what he wants.”

– Kitaab as sunnaah

[ghvrabaaa]

”سيأتي الضياء برغم الغيوم“ “The light will come despite the clouds.”

[ghvrabaaaa]

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَاءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۙ وَلَا يَزِيدُ الظَّالِمِينَ إِلَّا خَسَارًا

“And We send down of the Qur'aan that which is healing and mercy for the believers, but it does not increase the wrongdoers except in loss.”

— Al-Israa (17:82)

[ghvrabaaaa]

“The heart that lives the life of Emaan and tastes the sweetness of it, sees gold as something grey and money as paper that’s used to cover your needs and nothing else, it’s filled with light and shines, Taqwaa is the balance that does not run out and honesty an aid that does not decrease.”

[ghvrabaaaa]

Shaykh al-Islaam ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:

‎“Whenever tawheed (oneness of God) is strengthened in a slave’s heart, his faith, feeling of being at ease, trust in Allaah, and surety in Allaah strengthens.”

Source: Majmoo’ al-Fataawa no. 28/35

[ghvrabaaaa]

Trials (and tribulations) reveal people who are true gems, and quickly make clear the pretender (amongst them).

[بدائع الفوائد 3/751]