Shems Saif

“I’ve had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“Why does Allah compare the Quran to water?
Besides the fact that the Quran came down from the sky, it also brings dead hearts back to life, like water brings life to the dead earth. Similarly as to how water is completely pure, the Quran is pure and purifies everything else. We are completely incapable of creating water ourselves yet benefit from what it produces in the earth, the same way the Quran is not and cannot be the work of a human being but we can extract benefit from the guidance it offers.”
― Nouman Ali Khan

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“قالت امرأة فرعون : " رب ابن لى عندك بيتا فى الجنة " .. فطلبت كون البيت عنده قبل طلبها أن يكون فى الجنة ، فإن الجار قبل الدار”
― Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya [Arabic: ابن قيم الجوزية], الفوائد