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December 22, 2014

Allāh might give you a very precious gift wrapped in hardship. IF you’re patient, the wrappings will unravel and you’ll get your gift.…

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On Grieving

December 6, 2014

He [Yaqūb] said, “I complain of my suffering and my grief only to Allāh Yūsuf:86 Anything that grieves a person, anything that deeply bothers them and that causes them to become anxious and stressed (out of ordinary stress) is a muṣībah – it is a calamity, whether others perceive it as such or not.…

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A Test in Tawakkul

November 2, 2014

Sufficient for us is Allāh, and most excellent is He in Whom we trust. Perhaps Allāh is testing to see NOT how great a patience you can observe, but how great a trust you can place in Him. Especially if Allāh has rectified your Dīn and much of your Dunyā. He subḥānah might leave a gap in your affairs, so to speak. An unrectified gap. And that gap needs to be filled by you with tawakul (complete and total trust…

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Empathy

October 11, 2014

Sometimes remembering other people’s afflictions eases your own ordeals. In the Qurʾān, Allāh consoles Rasūl Allāh ﷺ by reminding him that if he is being challenged and refuted, a prophet before him had to go through worse:…

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Personal Reflections

October 9, 2014

❝Allāh has given you SO much without you asking for any of it, do you think He will withhold from giving when you ask Him?!❞ [Paraphrasing Imām Ibn al-Qayyim r.a.]…

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What Hope Looks Like

September 11, 2014

Do you know what hope in Allāh looks like? Do you know what hope that Allāh will give you the very best of His bounties which your heart pines for, even though realistically and rationally speaking the mere thought, let alone an actual possibility, is too far-fetched, looks like? This:…

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