

“If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not even pain. That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for us. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that we need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns us to remove our hand from the fire, emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal change. We need to detach. Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more dunya hurts us, the more we inevitably detach from it. The more we inevitably stop loving it.”
― Reclaim Your Heart
― Reclaim Your Heart

“However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edges of tables.”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).”
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
― Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
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