If despair is the only way To bring me back to my knees Open to Your effects Then this melancholy Is my favorite place to be. “Don’t seal off the wound,” said Rumi, “It’s where the light enters you.” And I believe that. For when the chanting high and charms of this life Dim To… Read More
This is love. And so there are some who spend their whole lives seeking. Sometimes giving, sometimes taking. Sometimes chasing. But often, just waiting. They believe that love is a place that you get to: a destination at the end of a long road. And they can’t wait for that road to end at their… Read More
When the companion of the Prophet, pbuh, entered a town to bring them the message of Islam, he put it very beautifully. He said, “I have come to free you from the servitude of the slave and bring you to the servitude of the Lord of the slave.” Within this statement lies a powerful treasure…. Read More
To all those suffering from sadness or depression, know that it isn’t your fault. It isn’t because you’re weak. It isn’t because you’re just not grateful enough. It isn’t because you’re just not religious enough. It isn’t because you don’t have enough faith. It isn’t because God is angry with you. To all the well-meaning… Read More
By: Yasmin Mogahed All of this love. Every piece. Every part of all the love in this world. The love they make poems with. The love of spellbinding novel. The love in songs. The love they tried to capture in a movie. The love of a mother for her child, of a child for her… Read More
The man knew he was nearing his death. Because he had committed innumerable sins, he was terrified to meet his Lord. Upon his death, the man said to his children: “If my Lord takes possession of me, He will punish me in a manner in which He has punished no one else.” In his fear,… Read More
If you want the veil between you and God to be lifted in the next life, lift that veil first in this life. Your sins, your false attachments, your loss of hope in Him, are all holding you back from seeing Him with your heart in this life…and seeing Him with your eyes in the… Read More
Why Do People Have to Leave Each Other? Part I | Part II When I was 17 years old, I had a dream. I dreamt that I was sitting inside a masjid and a little girl walked up to ask me a question. She asked me: “Why do people have to leave each other?” The question… Read More
