December 2011
14 posts
Since She Left: I sit and I hold two cold circular... →
sincesheleft:
I sit and I hold two cold circular stones in my hand because this is what I’ve been led to. I have never put my faith into God but instead believed so much in love that it sometimes takes me over. I believed in love before I’d experienced it like I have now. Not in a fairytale way, but in a pure,…
anditslove:
I miss our lazy days filled with nothing but our immense love for each other.
A goodbye isn't painful unless you know you're...
“You are the distance between the way things are and the way I want them to be.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Reminders In The Sky (via iwtfy-)
“Assumptions are the death of a relationship. If you think you know what’s going...”
– Tonya Hurley (via wordsofsolace2)
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via wordsofsolace2)
“To all those suffering from sadness or depression, know that it isn’t your...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via almaswithinalmas)
“Some of you will be entrusted with the hearts of other people. Take care of your...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via wordsofsolace2)
“You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or...”
– Jodi Picoult (via wordsofsolace2)
“Let the pain of tests be diminished through your consciousness that He is the...”
– Ibn Ata’illah (via wordsofsolace)
November 2011
51 posts
“May God give you eyes to see beauty only the heart can understand.”
– (via journeyofamuslimah)
“People always fall. But something interesting happens when God falls in love...”
– Shaykh Muḥammad al-Māḥī Cissé (via wordsofsolace)
“There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via safiyahzayn)
Words of Solace: The ego. →
ssiddiqui90:
The ego destroys our family relationships, our friendships, our lives and our spiritual well being. It stops us from forgiving, loving and working together. The Islamic sources use various strategies to help us reduce our egos.
1. Reflect upon death. We will all face the…
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is...”
– Ayn Rand (via troubled)
“Your sincerity and character are defined by how you treat the weak, the poor,...”
– (via abdulbary)
“What happens when a beloved person hurts you again and again and again?...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via wordsofsolace)
Words of Solace: The Way Out →
wordsofsolace:
Ibn al-Jawzi said: “Something was causing me a great deal of grief and distress, and I started to think long and hard about how to get out of this situation by any means, but I could not find any way out. Then I came across this verse:
“… And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He…
“As each one of us strives to achieve the Pleasure of the Almighty and His...”
– Mufti Ismail Menk (via wordsofsolace)
“The pious is not the one who has pious company, but the one who is pious when...”
– Ali radiya Allahu anhu (via migratingtoallah)
“You learn to trust people when you learn to trust God. Because if you trust in...”
– (via wordsofsolace)
“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get...”
– John Green (via wordsofsolace)
nonchalante:
Sometimes letting go is the best remedy for the mild illness called love that comes with symptoms attachment and hope.
Yes we are warriors, but even the best warriors know when to stop the fighting and accept things for what they are.
Sometimes, we are holding on to water that has already seeped through our hands.
Sometimes we are hoping for something that was never ours to begin...
i forgive you..
mendmyheart:
.. and then you make the same mistake
and you apologize..
and i forgive you.
and then you make the same mistake
over and over and over
again.
and i forgive you and still open up my heart to you.
and you still make the same mistake.
and my only reasoning for that is, if God can forgive me for my mistakes that i continually repeat, why can’t i find room to forgive you?
so i...
فَنَادَىٰ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَن لَّا إِلَـٰهَ...
wordsofsolace:
…And he called out within the darknesses, “There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers.” (Quran 21:87)
“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is...”
– Osho (via killer-butterfly)
Words of Solace: I have no idea where I'm going. →
thefreenomad:
My Lord, I have no idea where I am going, I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire…
“Our living in this world will inevitably bring us tests. Those tests are subtle...”
– Imam Zaid Shakir (via wordsofsolace)
“Our living in this world will inevitably bring us tests. Those tests are subtle...”
– Imam Zaid Shakir (via wordsofsolace)
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labryinth, thinking about how you’ll...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green (via quote-book)
Words of Solace: Letter To My Future Hubby. →
thesimplereflector:
Dear Future Husband,
I don’t want to be your girlfriend. I just want to be the one you call your wife. Your presence will me happiness. You’ll be my halal prince charming. Riding your horse of Taqwa. Holding onto the Quran in your right hand and the Sunnah in your…
"Sometimes Allah closes all the doors and locks...
“The journey looks impossible, because the End seems so far away. We think, its...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via wordsofsolace)
“Don’t be a pessimist, pessimists suffer from sorrows that haven’t happened and...”
– AbdulBary Yahya (via dreamdrifter)
“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self centered. Forgive them...”
– Kent Keith (Have Faith Anyway)
“And so with each passing year, we became more and more desperate to fill that...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via thefreenomad)
i-living-islam:
An old man told his son about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “Son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil - it is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, guilt, lies & ego. The other one is good - it is joy, peace, love, serenity, humanity, kindness, faith, compassion, truth & hope.” The son asked his father, “Which wolf...
“What is destined will reach you, even if it be underneath two mountains. What is...”
– Arabic Proverb (via jarfullofdreams)
