"Surely, the true religion in Allah's sight is Islam" (3:19)
So you didn’t pass that exam. Or maybe a relationship fell apart, or your side hustle flopped. It sucks, yeah—but it’s not the end of your story. 📚 Tons of people have been through it. They’ve stumbled, picked themselves up, and crushed it later. Some had to fail a bunch of times before they finally made it big. That’s real life. 🧠 The real danger? Thinking failure means you’re done for. That mindset traps you while everyone else keeps moving
“Good character is the crown of a believer — it beautifies faith more than gold adorns a king.”
Fudayl ibn ‘Iyad (rahimahullah) said: “Humility is subjecting to what is right [the haqq] and submitting to/following it. If you hear it [haqq] from a child, you accept it, or even if you hear it from the most ignorant of people, you still accept it.” (Ibn Abid Dunya, At Tawadu’ Wal Khumul: 88, Hilyatul Awliya, vol. 8 pg. 91)
“Beware of being preoccupied with rectifying others before you rectify yourself.” Mukhtasar Minhāj al-Qāsideen | Imām ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi [may Allāh have mercy on him]
How can we complain about the laymen? Even the condition of the learned is now deteriorating. Hazrat Moulana Maseehullah Khan
“Overlook the shortcomings of others but not your own.” Shaykh Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
“Sadness and depression will be relieved when the believers realise and accept that they have neither the power to avoid what has befallen them, nor the power to bring about what was not destined for them, and by remembering that everything Allah has decreed for them is only blessing for their benefit.” Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله)
Spend from what Allah has given you. Do not fear poverty. Allah will give you as He has promised. No one who has been generous has ever perished in destitution. [Ibn Arabi]
The more one is grounded in beautiful and praiseworthy character and free of despicable character, negligence will come to an end and one will be alert and saved from the wiles of the Nafs. Hazrat Moulana Maseehullah Khan
A true believer should eat to live, not live to eat. Over indulging in food can lead to neglect of of the physical and spiritual self.
