When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.

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

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.

If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

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?