God’s Mercy
Once we were with the Prophet (pbuh) when a man came forward, who held in his hand something wrapped up in a blanket. He said: ‘O Messenger of God, I was passing by a thicket of trees when I heard some birds chirping. I seized them and put them in my blanket. Then their mother appeared and began to hover over my head. So I uncovered them a little to let her see. She alighted on them, and I wrapped them all up in my blanket. Here they all are.’
The Prophet (pbuh) immediately ordered them to be put down. I put them down, but their mother would not leave them. The Prophet (pbuh) thereupon said: ‘Do you wonder at the compassion of this bird for her young? By Him who has sent me with the Truth, God is more merciful to His servants than this mother of young birds is to her young.’
Then he ordered: ‘Take them back and put them where you got them. And the mother as well.’ So he took them back.
(Abu Dawud)
God’s Unbounded Forgiveness
The Messenger of God (pbuh) said: ‘All children of Adam are sinners, but the best among sinners are those who constantly repent.’
(Tirmidhi)
The Prophet (pbuh) said: ‘One is not counted as a persistent sinner if he seeks forgiveness every time he sins, even if he returns to the same sin seventy times a day.
(Abu Dawud)
Seeking Godliness
The Messenger of God (pbuh) said: ‘If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God in his heart and life.
(Hakim)
“Sit with those of this world, and you become a speck in its sea. Sit with those of Allah, and the world becomes
a speck in your sea.”
…One of the scholars of Ihsan
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Don’t be angry at the waves of the sea, as there are several waiting to follow it up. Almost never ending but one day it will end.
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“The world is just a moment, so make it a moment of obedience.” [Imam Shafi]
“The greatest achievement of the ego is to make virtue unattractive.” [Shaykh Abdul Hakim Murad]
“Every sin is the result of a person’s putting the desires of his soul above his love for Allah and His messenger.” [Ibn Rajab]
“If your hearts become pure, you will never have enough of the words of your Lord.” [Uthman radi Allah anhu]
“If you have a library and a garden then you have everything that you need.”
- Cicero
“Nay, if you have Allah and His Messenger then you have everything that you need and more!”
- Those who know
(“Is Allah not enough for His slave?” – Allah Himself in the Qur’an).
“Are you not content that they take home the things of this world whilst you…you take home the Messenger of Allah?” – the Prophet, upon him be blessings and peace, to the Ansar)
The people of God are of two types,
Those who see they are being made to journey, and
Those who see themselves doing the traveling.
- Traditional Sufi Saying
It is not muslims that made Islam great , it is Islam that made muslims great – Muhammad Assad
“We blame our time though we are to blame.
No fault has time but only us.
We scold the time for all the shame.
Had it a tongue, it would scold us.” – [Imam Shafi(ra)]
SubhanAllah