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Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
- Muhammad Ali
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What drains your spirit drains your body.
What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
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Each bird flies with its own nature. Eagle with an eagle, crow with crow.
- Ibn Arabi
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Deep down, we know it to be true. We know that possessions don't equal joy. And we know full well that our lives are too valuable to waste chasing them.
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Be guided by the Soul and not driven by ego.
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We end up as we deserve - in old age we must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children we have earned. We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Man sacrifices his health to make money, then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. He is so anxious about the future, that he doesn't enjoy the present. And he lives as if he's never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
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The Call of the Dunya
This is from the best similitudes. A king built a home. Those who see did not see, and those who hear did not hear of a home better than this home, or more spacious than this home, or of a home con­taining more delights of the soul than this home. A path leading to this home was prepared, and a caller was sent out to call the people to it.
There was a beautiful woman sitting on the path. She was adorned with assorted types of adornments and she wore various types of jewelry. All the people had to pass by her. She had helpers and servants at her disposal. The woman and her helpers had provisions for those walking on the path toward the king.
The king said to the woman and her helpers, “Whoever lowers their gaze from you, does not allow you to distract them from me, and seeks provisions from you that will allow them to reach me, then serve him and give him provisions. Don’t hinder him from his travel to me; rather, assist him with everything that will allow him to complete his journey.
But whoever turns his eyes toward you, is pleased with you, pre­fers you over me, and desires to reach you, then impose upon him an evil punishment and humiliation. Make him chase behind you with a pursuit of loneliness. Whoever eats from you, then lead him astray with it for a while, then snatch all of it away from him. Take mastery over all those who follow and serve you. The more he increases his love for you, exalts and honors you, then recipro­cate him with alienation, distance and belittlement until he is dis­connected from you with misery.”
Thus, ponder this similitude and the condition of the call of the worldly life and the call of the Afterlife. And with Allah aid is sought.
This example is extracted from the narration narrated from Allah, the Exalted:
“O Dunya; serve whoever serves Me, and cause fa­tigue and trouble O Dunya to whoever serves you.”
- An extract taken from ‘The dunya and it’s reality’ by Ibn al-Qayyim
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Your values become your destiny.
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In the choice of good and bad actions, man is free and he commits them according to his own will. For example, if he wishes, he can pass his time in praising God or he can be occupied with other thoughts. He can be an enkindled light through the fire of the love of God and a philanthropist loving the world or he can be a hater of mankind and engrossed with material things. He can be just or cruel. These actions and these deeds are subject to the control of the will of man himself; consequently, he is responsible for them.
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Inner wounds are more difficult to see because they don't leave visible scars.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.
- Rumi
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"Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell. Is there a worse hell than the torment a man suffers when he knows deep down in his conscience that he has done something wrong, awfully wrong? Ask that man. He will tell you what hell is. Is there a better paradise than the bliss that descends upon a man at those rare moments in life when the bolts of the universe fly open and he feels in possession of all the secrets of eternity and fully conscious of God? Ask that man. He will tell you what heaven is."
- Shams-e-Tabriz [Rahimahullah]
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Just as physical life begins when our physical heart starts beating, our spiritual life begins when our spiritual heart starts beating.
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We are Energy Beings: Build it or Lose it
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Everyone has an energy and there is so many energies surrounding us, we are an energy being. We are a spiritual being.
Every communication now is through energy, that every radio wave, microwave, every type of television signal, transmission - all of these are energies. That when you deduce them and reduce them to the core, it’s energy. Most powerful energy is the human, insan, “Wa laqad karamna Bani Adam,” that Allah says, “I have honoured your creation”. One of the true honours of the creation is the amount of energy that flows from the soul, from the being, from the nafs, from everything around insan (human being).
A very simple understanding of the tariqas (spiritual paths) is to perfect the energy. Everything that they give us, every practice that is given to us, every teaching of Holy Qur’an, of Hadith an-Nabi ﷺ , of all of the amal and the actions - all reduced to energy, building our energy, perfecting our energy and building a shield of perfection and protection around us.
When doing the Zikr, awrads (a set of dua's (prayers, recitations) and good actions it brings a tranquility within the heart, meaning that the heart becomes very subtle. It begins to understand with the little bit of zikr, it feels the energy. It knows that when it goes somewhere, it’s feeling a heaviness, that this place I went, it’s very heavy. The heart is not going to lie; it’s telling you the charge that is being emitted from the people, from the place, from that location, that it is a very heavy energy. If it’s not positive and giving to you, it’s very simple: it must be negative and taking from you.
This means that if we go to enough places that take energy, your battery becomes empty, my battery becomes empty. The more this negative charge goes, the more this negative charge goes, then as the battery becomes empty, your field of protection is now dropped. And again you will see the signs within dunya and within ourselves.
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If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self transformation.
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