March 2012
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A man once approached the Beloved Prophet Muhammad...
Advice Seeker: 'O Messenger of God! I have some relatives whom I treat with kindness. Yet they show me no kindness. I treat them well and they treat me badly. I show them forbearance and they treat me with brutality.
Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: If you are as you say you are, then it is as if you have smeared their faces with dust. And you will always have God’s help against them so long as you continue to be well behaved towards them.
February 2012
30 posts
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“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like...”
– Rabbi Harold Kushner, “When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough,” paraphrasing Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan
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“God takes us into deep waters, not to drown us but to cleanse us.”
– Unknown
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“It was God who created you; yet some of you refuse to believe, while others have...”
– Qur’an, At-Taghabun, Surah 64:2-4 From “366 Readings From Islam,”
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“When the craft of making armor was made known, iron became wax in your hands....”
– Rumi, “Mathnawi” 3:2498-99
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“God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.”
– Unknown
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“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral...”
– Dalai Lama
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“Liberate yourself from the fetters of the ego and surrender yourself before God....”
– Sheikh Abdul Qadier Jillani, “Futhul Ghaib”
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“Anger or hatred is like a fisherman’s hook. It is very important for us to...”
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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“Everything has its own food, and music is the food of the spirit.”
– Nasrabadi in ‘Attar, “Tadhkirat” From “The Wisdom of Sufism,”
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The Qur’an repeats the words “man” and “woman” equally, 23 times. Together this is 46, the number of chromosomes in a human being.
keepingtaqwa:
SubhanAllah =)
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“Abdullah, Muhammad’s father, died while Amina was pregnant.
Muhammad...”
– Ibn Ishaq, “The Life of Muhammad”
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“Lord! Do not cause our hearts to go astray after You have guided us on the right...”
– Qur’an, Al-Imran, Surah 3:8 From “The Bounty of Allah”
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“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it—would...”
– Ralph Marston
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“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat.”
– Proverbs of Solomon (Sulayman) 25:21
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“There are two kinds of speeches and two kinds of silences. Speech is either...”
– Al-Hujwiri, “The Kashf al-Mahjub”
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“God is knowledge; he is knowing; and he is being known. Since God has knowledge...”
– Ibn Sina, “al-Risalat al-Arshiya” From “366 Readings From Islam”
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“Indeed the whole world is imagination.
Only He is the real in Reality.
Whoever...”
– Ibn ‘Arabi, “Masters of the Path” From “The Bounty of Allah,”
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“A little light will dispel much darkness.”
– Isaachar Eilenburg, Tzeda LaDerek
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“Do not say about anything, “I am going to do that tomorrow,” without adding, “If...”
– Qur’an 18;23-24
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything....”
– Buddha
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– Girl Meets World: ”A man once told the Buddha, ‘I want happiness’. The Buddha said remove the ‘I’ that’s ego, now remove the ‘want’ that’s desire, now all you are left with is, Happiness.”
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“Do not pay attention to the one who is speaking, but pay attention to what he is...”
– Imam Ali (as)
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“We are what we repeatedly do.”
– Aristotle
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“Tolerance is the graveyard of defects.”
– Imam Ali (a)
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“Imam Ali (a.s) said:
حَلاَوَةُ الظَّفَرِ تَمْحُوا مَراَرَةَ الصَّـبْرِ.
The...”
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“The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.”
– Aga Khan IV
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“Life in this world is but a short passage in eternity.”
– Aga Khan