If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

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.

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.