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

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.

If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.