Quotes About Pain and Suffering

“Too often we understand our sorrows, our pain, our suffering in terms of guilt. As if he had to pay. The teaching is sometimes the exact opposite… “God tests those He loves” is not a call not to cultivate our guilt but to think our spiritual strength, our ability to rise to the challenge, to nurture our trust in Him. Suffering and pain then do not reveal the guilt of a victim. Rather, they are awakening a responsible consciousness that calls each of us to stand up, to resist and overcome suffering. As a free and humble soul who resists, not as a passive victim who complains.

Tariq Ramadan

“It is almost a rule that the heart does not mend except through pain, and does not recover and regain its tenderness except through suffering.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

“The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow

Boonaa Muhammad

“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 turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“All pain comes from only one thing: looking away from Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began to realize something profound. I had always thought that love of dunya meant being attached to material things. And I was not attached to material things. I was attached to people. I was attached to moments. I was attached to emotions. So I thought that the love of dunya just did not apply to me. What I didn’t realize was that people, moments, emotions are all a part of dunya. What I didn’t realize is that all the pain I had experienced in life was due to one thing, and one thing only: love of dunya.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And pain is a pointer to our attachments. That which makes us cry, that which causes us most pain is where our false attachments lie. And it is those things which we are attached to as we should only be attached to Allah which become barriers on our path to God. But the pain itself is what makes the false attachment evident. The pain creates a condition in our life that we seek to change, and if there is anything about our condition that we don’t like, there is a divine formula to change it. God says: “Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.” (Qur’an, 13:11)

Yasmin Mogahed

“One easy step to make the dunya stop breaking your heart: stop loving it!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes pain teaches what pleasure never could.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And is not every single pain and suffering of this world and the next the result of a sin that we have committed?

Yasir Qadhi

Quotes About Pain and Suffering

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