Imagine all your beautiful deeds, all your glorious doings, all of them going to the hands of each and every person you did them for, fooling yourself into thinking you were doing them for your Lord. Imagine all your beautiful deeds, all your glorious doings, leaving you empty, in ruins.
May Allaah protect us from insincerity and may every thought, every statement, every act, be for His sake only. Allaahumma ameen.
(Source: dream-within-a-dream)
“We now think that beneath the frozen shell of Europa there lies an ocean, with more liquid water in it than all of the seas and lakes and rivers and oceans of the whole of the Earth put together. And on Earth, where there’s water, there’s life.”
-Europa, Moons of the Solar System
Subhan Allaah. & Allaah knows best.
(Source: galactic-centre, via we-are-star-stuff)
(via c0caino)
We limit the deen to rules and obligations, the haraam and the halaal, the makrooh and the mustahabb. All you need to ask yourself is, do I want to obey Allaah and His commandments or do I want to disobey Him? If you want to obey Him, be of those who hear and obey [follow the Qur’aan + Sunnah]. If you want to disobey Him, be of those who hear and disobey [not follow the Qur’aan + Sunnah.
Bes.
Shaykh Muqbil Al-Wadi’ee used to say to his students:
يا أبنائي لو كان العلم يسقى في كأس لأسقيتموه ، ولكن لا يتحصّل عليه إلا بكد وحكِ الركب
“Oh my children, if knowledge could be poured into a glass, I would pour it for you, but it is not obtained except by hard work, exhaustion, and scraping of the knees”.
(Source: khatoom, via caged-unicorns)
The ‘Abd is never afflicted with punishment more severe than hardness of the heart and being away from Allaah Subhanahu wa ta’aala. An-Naar (Hellfire) was created to melt the hard hearts. The more distant of hearts are the hard ones. When the heart hardens the eye becomes dry. The hardness of the heart stems from exaggeration in four things: eating, sleeping, talking, and socializing. As when the body becomes sick, eating and drinking cannot cure it; if the heart becomes sick with desires, preaching cannot help it.
Whoever seeks to purify his heart let him favour Allaah over his desires. The hearts are the vessels of Allaah Subhanahu wa ta’aala on His earth. The most beloved to Him are those that are most soft, most strong and most pure.
They occupy their hearts with ad-Dunyaa (the world). If they occupied them with Allaah and al-Aakhirah their hearts would wonder in the meanings of His words and His clear signs. Then their hearts would return to them with marvelous wisdoms and astonishing benefits.
Taken from AL-HIJRA Magazine vol. 3, issue 6
(Source: abdurrahman.org)
