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“You may have someone in your life who is very sensitive. If you truly value your relationship with them, learn to accept them rather than dismissing their feelings and trying to change them.

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 trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don’t even really care about you. Don’t make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.

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. Don’t allow your eyes to fall on the faults of others. Turn away your eyes and say to your eyes, ‘oh eyes, other people have eyes 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 thoughts, do not gossip and do not teach what you do not know.

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 the meaning right. That flawed utterance is dearer to God.

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 ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

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 mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never runs out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

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 lack of regret about your mistakes.

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 me in spite of my ugly deeds.

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 without You.

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 whole planet threatens your life, don’t let go of the Beloved’s robe for even a breath.

Rumi

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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

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

Rumi

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