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.

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.

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

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.

Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

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