Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.

We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.