May 2011
apomakrysmenophobia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.
April 2011
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I have found that the corruption of the heart leads to the corruption of...
– Imam al-Muhasibi
SubhanAllah ♥: Jesus [pbuh] was a Muslim. →
subhanallah:
1. Jesus purified himself with washing prior to prayer, as was the practice of the pious prophets who preceded him (see Exodus 40:31-32 in reference to Moses and Aaron), and as is the practice of Muslims.
2. Jesus prayed in prostration (Matthew 26:39), like the other prophets (see…
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder....
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So if you complain that God must be cruel
Can you give Allah, all that he gives...
– Boonaa Mohammed
jamming to pandora
when I should be studying for my history/World War I test and Spanish quiz……..blaaaaah i hate studying. ok this is a very pointless post but I just remembered that i’m going to see Hamza Yusuf this saturday inshallah! he’s speaking at a masjid that’s like an hour away but my sister’s coming from college & we’re going!!!
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Do not let difficulties fill you with anxiety,after all it is in the darkest of...
– Ali (R.A.)
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“If We had sent down this Qur’an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from fear of Allah. And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought.” (Qur’an, 59:21)
How often have we felt the weight of the Qur’an on our hearts? The Qur‘an is able to humble a mountain, yet our hearts remain hard. Our hearts are more moved by novels about...
Majd: A Reflection on Death →
majdimam:
by Yasmin Mogahed. I wrote this in the car on my way back home from the burial of a righteous soul. May Allah (swt) have mercy on him and his family. Ameen.
We buried a man today. And here I am now on my way home in the caravan of the living. For now.
For now, you and I are in the caravan…
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which...
– Al-Ghazali