Amina Shehata

“فضحَ الموتُ الدنيا ، فلم يترك لذي لُبٍ فيها فرحًا ، و ما ألزم عبدٌ قلبه الموت إلّا صغرت الدنيا عليه ، و هان عليه جميع ما فيها .”
― الحسن البصري

“But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong – but you are now a different shape, a different size. This sort of change — the change that occurs when you sit inside your own pain — it’s revolutionary. When you let yourself die, there is suddenly one day: new life. You are Different. New. And no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot fit into your old life anymore. You are like a snake trying to fit into old, dead skin, or a butterfly trying to crawl back into the cocoon, or new wine trying to pour itself back into an old wineskin. This new you is equal parts undeniable and terrifying.

Because you just do not fit. And suddenly you know that. And you have become a woman who doesn’t ignore her knowing. Who doesn’t pretend she doesn’t know. Because pretending makes you sick. And because you never promised yourself an easy life, but you did promise yourself a true one. You did promise – back when you were putting yourself back together – that you’d never betray you again.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton

“ذكر ابن كثير عن الإمام أحمد أنه كان يئن في مرضه، فبلغه عن طاوس أنه قال : يكتب الملك كل شيء حتى الأنين ، فلم يئن أحمد حتى مات رحمه الله”
― عمر سليمان عبد الله الأشقر, عالم الملائكة الأبرار

“لا تستبطئ منه النوال ولكن استبطئ من نفسك وجود الإقبال”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية