Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.

Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.