​Purifying The Heart​

​​"There is no doubt that the heart becomes covered with rust, just as metal dishes - silver, and their like - become rusty. So the rust of the heart is polished with dhikr (remembrance of Allah), for dhikr polishes the heart until it becomes like a shiny mirror. However, when dhikr is abandoned, the rust returns; and when it commences then the heart again begins to be cleansed. Thus the heart becoming rusty is due to two matters: sins and ghaflah (neglecting remembrance of Allah. Likewise, it is cleansed and polished by two things: istighfaar (seeking Allah's forgiveness) and dhikr." - 

​Ibn Al Qayyim​

Do Not Mock The Supplication​

"Do you mock the supplication and belittle it? While you do not know what it has the power to do! The arrows of the night (du’a) do not miss target But they have a set limit, which shall come to end. So if my Lord wishes, He holds it back. And if the decree is to be fulfilled, He sets it forth."

Fear of Being Proud

If you fear being proud of the good deed you have done, then remind yourself

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hose pleasure you are seeking, and what bliss (Paradise) you wish for, and what punishment you want to avoid. If you think thoroughly of any one of these, your deed will become small in your eyes.--

​Imam Shafi'e​

Fault Is In Us

نعيب زماننا والعيب فينا *** وما لزماننا عيب سوانا ونهجوا ذا الزمان بغير ذنب *** ولو نطق لنا الزمان لهجانا
We fault our time when the fault is in us And what fault does our time have besides us? We scold what's in our time though it has done no wrong And had time been able to talk it would have scolded us. Imam al-Shafi