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“I bear witness that You—You alone, with no partner—are the *only* Refuge.

“The only beautiful love is the selfless kind. Any other kind can get so ugly.

“You know what I think is one of the most beautiful expressions of love? Defending that person when they're being attacked or hurt in any way!

“There is a candle in your heart ready to be kindled; There is a void in your soul ready to be filled…you feel it, don’t you?

“I think trying to be everything to everyone is what makes us fall short. Only God can be that. Specialize.

“We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.

“When you give up something for Allah that the nafs loves, He carries you through it and replaces it with something so much better.

“Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

“Marriage is not the End or purpose of life. Marriage is one means to the End or purpose of Life.

“Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world—but most of all in relation to God.

“When you beg of people, they hate you for it. When you beg of Allah, He loves you.

“Sometimes music feeds a part of yourself you don't want to feed.

“Starve the nafs to feed the soul.

“Maybe Allah withholds something from us in this life in order to give it to us in its perfect form in the next.

“Every love outside of His love, is pain.

“It's human nature to have desires. It's animal nature to give in.

“One of my dear teachers once told me: "The Truth will set you free...but it will make you miserable first."

“Something to reflect on: What is loved for other than His sake will be the source of your greatest pain.

“It is so liberating to love for the sake of God. To love for the sake of the self is nothing but torment. Rise above the self and let go.

“Indeed I have fasted from all of the delights in my life, and the day that I meet You, that day shall be the Iftar of my fasting.