People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

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إذا كنت لا تعرف الله إلا في النعمة فأنت لا تعبده، إنما تعبد نفسكIf you do not know God except during good times, then you do not worship Him, you worship yourself.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

‎Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

SubhanAllah Calligraphy

سبحان الله

Limitless is God in His glory

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O one whose hopes are in the worldly life, your life has been wasted.

Ibn al-Jawzi

Never cut off the possibility of reconciliation with someone whom you've fought with, for one enemy is one too many, and life is too short to build enemies.

Yasir Qadhi

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Marry a religious woman. She will neither abuse your right nor reveal your secret and she will take care of your property and your child in the best way.

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

A quick and easy way to check to see if you have a pure heart is seeing how readily willing you are to give a compliment to others. If your first instinct when you see something nice or hear about the success of someone you feel constricted then know you have jealousy in your heart. If you genuinely feel happy for the other person and you feel secure with yourself it will be very easy to happily give a compliment. If you see traces of jealousy in your heart, train yourself to be content by realizing that everything is portioned with great wisdom. No one is going to take anything away from you that was meant for you. Realize the wisdom in the distribution of wealth, knowledge, beauty, and success. This will ease your heart, prevent you from eating yourself up and allow you to enjoy the beauty & success of others while feeling secure within.

Halel Banani

By gates of al-Masjid al-Haram

[Photo by Lulwa Althani.]

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Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one to whom you give your charity.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

The Quran is the ultimate proof of our religion; simply listen to its recitation, and you are certain that it is the Speech of our Creator.

Yasir Qadhi

Be the Muslim you want to meet.

Abdulbary Yahya

رَبِّ ابْنِ لِي عِنْدَكَ بَيْتًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ

My Lord, build me a house near You in Paradise. (Quran 66:11)

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Sins to a heart are like oil drops on a cloth—unless you wash it immediately and vigorously, it will permanently stain.

Ibn al-Jawzi

Five times a day we must pull away from the dunya to focus on our Creator and ultimate purpose. Five times a day, we detach ourselves from whatever we are doing of worldly life, and turn to God. Prayer could have been prescribed only once a day or week or all five prayers could have been done at one time each day. But it is not. The prayers are spread throughout the day. If one keeps to their prayers at their specified times, there is no opportunity to get attached. As soon as we begin to become engrossed in whatever dunya matter we’re involved in (the job we’re doing, the show we’re watching, the test we’re studying for, the person we can’t get off our mind), we are forced to detach from it and turn our focus to the only true object of attachment.

Yasmin Mogahed