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I ask Allah to remove all bitterness and envy from within me. I ask Allah to allow my happiness for people to be pure and genuine. I ask Allah to cleanse me from all feelings that are, in even the slightest, tainted with pride and jealousy because it is these feelings that make the heart rotten and a rotten heart is too heavy for me to carry. Oh Allah, purify me.

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يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلبي على دينك و على طاعتك.

“And be not like those who forgot God, so He made them forget themselves…”

— Qur'ān, 59:19

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This on repeat, in my mind, daily.

“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?”

— David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster

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As someone has rightly said: the Qur'ān is a lullaby for the spirit, and an alarm for the ego — it comforts the former, and warns the latter.

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“Do your soul a favor. Turn to God.”

— — niqour

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“The purpose of fasting is to break your desire and weaken your appetite, so that you can have the strength to increase your taqwa. If you eat in the evening as much as you missed eating during the late afternoon, then there is no benefit in your fasting, and you have placed a burden on your stomach.”

-Imam Al-Ghazali, Bidaya-tul Hidayah

(The Beginning of Guidance).

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“🍁 In Ramadan, being close to Allah doesn’t only look like reciting Quran for hours. It looks like shortening your recitation of the Quran even when you don’t want to so that you could answer your dad who is asking for your help. It looks like wishing you had the time to pray sunnah, but not being able to because your child needs your immediate attention. Being close to God looks like not fasting, as desperately as you wish you could and as guilty as you feel when you can’t, because your doctors have said it is detrimental for your personal health situation. It looks like wanting to sit for hours in the masjid to make a deeply heartfelt duaa, but having to rush out so you can make it to work on time. Our typical image of a “mashaAllah” pious person often looks like someone who spends the day fasting, the night praying, and all the while reading Quran and being secluded in the masjid. That is indeed a great blessing for those who have the time, health and ability to do so. But a “mashaAllah” pious person is truly also a person who takes care of their life responsibilities, who has wisdom in when to spend time only in personal worship and when to make the intention that their worship is in caring for others because they recognize that “actions are by intention.” (Bukhari) The critical factor is that in all they do, even when it doesn’t feel spiritually elevating- they recognize it truly is because they remember it’s for God: “Say, “Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for God, Lord of the worlds” (Quran 6:162) A “MashAllah” pious person looks like *you*”

— Maryam Amir

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