When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.

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

Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.

You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.