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“You may have someone in your life who is very sensitive. If you truly value your relationship ...

Saad Tasleem

“Don’t make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In ...

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“Don’t allow your tongue to utter the fault of another person, because you are covered in faults and everyone else has tongues too. ...

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“My dear heart never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, do not harbor bad ...

Rumi

“The fault is in the one who blames. The Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

Rumi

“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Rumi

“Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong, but ...

Rumi

“Many of the faults you see in others, dear ones, are your own nature reflected in them.

Rumi

“When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ...

Rumi

“The happiness of the drop is to die in the ocean.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Rumi

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be far sighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience ...

Rumi

“The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Rumi

“We are people who need to love, because Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.

Hafiz Shirazi

“May God forgive the total lack of sincerity in my plea, when I say, “God forgive me."

Rabi`a al-Adawiyyah

“A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and ...

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“My God how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with ...

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“I can be without anyone, but not without You. You twist my heart, dwell in my mind, and fill my eyes You are my joy. I can’t be ...

Rumi

“‎Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

Rumi

“Oh my heart, don’t become discouraged so easily. Have faith. In the hidden world, there are many mysteries, many wonders. Even if the ...

Rumi

“‎He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

Rumi

“Take away everything that takes me from You.

Rumi

“We are designed to fall to our knees.

Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

“God gave us the Prophet because He loved what we might become.

Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was ...

Rumi

“Hypocrites look for faults; the believers look for excuses.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Dear friends, Our souls have been in love with God For so very, very long.

Hafiz Shirazi

“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and ...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.

Rumi

“Our death is our wedding with eternity.

Rumi

“Leave every action that will demand an apology from you. Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible ...

Ibn al-Jawzi

“By the mercy of God, Paradise has eight doors. One of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, ...

Rumi

“Love for God envelops the heart, it rules the heart and it emanates over everything.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of ...

Rumi

“With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but Love.

Rumi

“Each lover is alone, in secret, with the one he loves, and I’m here too; alone, hidden from all of them with You

Rabi`a al-Adawiyyah

“I hear nothing in my ear but your voice. Heart has plundered mind of its eloquence. Love writes a transparent calligraphy, so on the ...

Rumi

“‎O Lord, show us truth as true, and enable us to follow it.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Deafened by the voice of desire you are unaware the Beloved lives in the core of your heart. Stop the noise and you’ll hear His voice ...

Rumi

“‎O Beloved, what kind of fountain is Thy Love, of which I sipped but one drop and wept rivers.

Saadi Shirazi

“You will be with those you love.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Last night, within my heart I heard Your whispers of love, and my heart is still quivering to know You were there.

Hafiz Shirazi

“Reflect on the work of art and you may attain to the Artist.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“Be watchful—the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Rumi

“How long will you keep pounding on an open door begging for someone to open it?

Rabi`a al-Adawiyyah

“When His Light shines without a veil neither the sky remains nor the earth; not the sun, nor the moon

Rumi

“I desire not to desire anyone but You

Rumi

“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Rumi

“Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Rumi

“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to Light.

Rumi

“My heart is expanding a thousand fold. Every cell, taking wings, flies about the world. All seek separately the many faces of my Beloved.

Rumi

“A lover may hanker after this love or that love, But at the last he is drawn to the King of love.

Rumi

“They are the chosen ones who have surrendered. Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun.

Rumi

“Your earthly lover can be very charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a ...

Rumi

“Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Rumi

“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of their heart.

Rumi

“Love has come to rule and transform. Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

Rumi

“Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

Rumi

“All humans err. And the best of those who err are the truly repentant.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“You know what love is? It is all kindness, and generosity

Rumi

“But listen to me. For one moment quit being so sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms all around you.

Rumi

“To completely trust in God is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally ...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Every leaf that grows will tell you…What you sow will bear fruit. So if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but love

Rumi

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

“Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

Rumi

“Make things easy for people and not difficult. Give people good news and bring them joy, and do ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Rumi

“The heart is comforted by true words, just as a thirsty man is comforted by water.

Rumi

“Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

Rumi

“As there is no seeing outward colors without light, So it is with the mental colors within. Outward colors arise from the light of sun ...

Rumi

“Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

Rumi

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Rumi

“The clouds must weep before the meadow smiles.

Rumi

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