“We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion.
Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.”
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Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.”
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“Sabda-sabda beliau bukanlah sekedar syair-syair maupun kata-kata hikmah sehingga tidak ada penyair dan pujangga yang bisa menyamainya. Perkataan yang terlontar mengandung makna yang sampai pada hakikatnya, karena keluar dari bibir yang di belakangnya ada pikiran, yang di belakangnya ada hati, yang di belakangnya ada iman, dan yang di belakangnya ada Allah. Itulah perkataan yang tiada tercecer dan mubadzir, tidak ada pertentangan dan penyimpangan, karena semuanya mengandung faidah dan sesuai dengan fitrah kita.”
― الرحيق المختوم
― الرحيق المختوم
“[...] be unaffected by naysayers. Let not your desire or determination be wavered by the censure of cynics, the criticism of pessimists, the undermining of those that belittle, the jeering of the mockers, or the doubts of the skeptics.”
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“No,matter how sinful we are there is a way to repent.”
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“CAIR is still trying to promote its strange claim that criticism of its ideology is racist....The ridiculous claims that criticism of Islam is an act of bigotry fail to take into account the fact that former Muslims like Bosch, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Firoozeh Bazrafkan have been some of the sharpest critics of the ideology. Did they also change races?”
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