If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

He chose better for me, He always chooses better

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

Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?

If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!