When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.

Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.

Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.

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

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.