People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.

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.

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

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).