Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

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.

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

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

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?