Reclaim Your Heart

"Inna ma’iya rabee sa yahdeen…Truly my Lord is with me, He will guide me through." (Qur’an, 26:62)

The tragedy of our choice is that we chain our necks with attachments, and then ask why we choke.

To run to anything else is to resist the irresistible. To seek other than The One (al Wahid), is to become scattered, but never filled.

At times, in His infinite mercy, Allah frees us…by taking it away.

Past and present becomes rolled up into one experiential moment.

I could see nothing outside of it. Nothing else existed for that moment. If you wronged me today, it was because you no longer cared about me—not because this was one moment of a string of infinite moments which happened to be tinted that way, or because you and I and this life just aren’t perfect.

That which makes us cry, that which causes us the most pain is where our false attachments lie.

By trying to find fulfillment in what is fleeting, we are running after a hologram…a mirage.

Allah put a yearning in us that can only be fulfilled by what is eternal and perfect.

the definition of dunya, as something temporary and imperfect, goes against everything we are made to yearn for.