Difficult times are meant to bring you closer to the Almighty. So if you’re having a rough day or rough month, be calm. Let His Plan unfold.

Mufti Ismail Menk

The preoccupations of daily life combined with our weakness in our moral will obscure our inherent light. In recognition of these two realities, and to alleviate their influence on our moral development, God has strengthened our natural light with that of Revelation. Thus, God has made it an obligation upon Himself to instruct men before calling them to account.

Morality in the Quran

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And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam’s loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): “Am I not your Lord?” They said: “Yes! We testify,” lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: “Verily, we have been unaware of this.”

Quran 7:172 (Mohsin Khan translation)

Those who are merciful will be shown mercy by the Merciful. Be merciful to those on the earth and the One above the heavens will have mercy upon you.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)

Don’t announce your problems to the world looking for sympathy. Most don’t care, many don’t want to hear them, and some are glad you have them. Address your concerns to God. He’s always there and He can help.

Unknown Author

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Make it a habit of asking God for guidance in your life choices, whether major or minor.

If you want that guidance, you must be an attentive listener because sometimes God places the words you need to hear on the tongues of people around you.

Shaykh Azhar Nasser

Be mindful of Allah, and He will take care of you. Be mindful of Allah, and you shall find Him at your side. If you ask, ask of Allah. If you seek help, seek help from Allah. Know that if the whole world were to gather together to benefit you, they would not be able to benefit you, except with that which Allah has already prescribed for you. And if the whole world were to gather together to harm you, they would not be able to harm you, except with that which Allah had already prescribed for you. The pens have been lifted and the pages are dry.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)

Like snowflakes, we all come in different shapes, with a unique mission on earth. No matter what your calling is, this world is depending on you. Existence is a puzzle, without you in it, it would be incomplete.

Secrets of Divine Love

Wealth and children are an ornament of the life of the world. But the good deeds which endure are better in your Lord’s sight for reward, and better in respect of hope.

Quran 18:46

Indeed what is to come will be better for you than what has gone by.

Quran 93:4

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Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalm 30:5

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One day you will thank God for the door He has closed. You will be grateful that it didn’t work out for you. God’s plans are better than our wishes.

Unknown Author

Do you want to become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

Rumi

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Aldous Huxley

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

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I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth