The Internet Islamic Art Database | Library of Islamic Art and Quotes | Page 97

“Beware of viewing your relationship with God as a transactional one. Thinking He’s just repaying you for your works, creates a dangerous sense of entitlement when you see your works as good. But, the subtle danger lies in what happens when you see your works as bad. You lose all hope. God to you becomes like a drill sergeant (God forbid), ready to withhold and punish, instead of the One more merciful than a mother to her child, ready to forgive, forbear and give—although you have done nothing to deserve it and cannot repay it in any way.

“I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.

“It isn't life circumstance that makes us suffer. It's the attachment to life circumstances that makes us suffer.

“The amazing thing about putting trust in God is when you're standing at the cliff and He tells you to jump, it isn't so you'll fall. It's so He can make you fly.

“To fast is to say 'Dear God, I love food. I love drink. I love to fulfill my desire. But I love you more. So I give up what I love for what you love.'

“There's something so much bigger than what I want and what you want. There's a world beyond the 'I'. If you find it—that's Freedom.

“Our problem is we compare God to a human being. If I wrong a person again and again, eventually he gets tired of forgiving. God never tires.

“It's just me and You. It's always just been me and You.

“The heart may be in your chest, but it is in Allah's hands. Ask Him to open it.

“The body is of the lower world, where we need to eat, sleep, bleed, and cry. And die. But the soul is of the higher world and has only one need: to be with God.

“Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.

“Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.

“Getting dunya out of the heart is like getting ink out of a sponge: Painful and repetitive squeezing. Be patient. Cleansing won't last forever.

“When you seek dunya, you lose the hereafter. When you seek the hereafter, you gain both dunya and the hereafter. Which is the wiser transaction?

“Why was Prophet Ibrahim told to sacrifice his son? It was to free him internally of something that could compete with his love for God.

“When you let go of a gift that occupied your heart, there's an amazing light that comes with it when it's returned in your hand.

“God may deprive you of things to cure you of the need for it. Then when you no longer need it, it's returned to you. In your hand—not your heart.

“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.

“I think sometimes the heart holds on to sadness because it would rather feel something than be empty.

“When Musa was 'trapped' at the Red Sea, his eyes weren't on the sea. His eyes were on God. "God is with me and He will carry me through"(26:62)

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