Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

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

You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.

Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).