Toqa El-Mahdy

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“أيها البشر الأتقياء التائهون في هذا العالم
لم هذا التيه من أجل معشوق واحد
ما تبحثون عنه في هذا العالم
ابحثوا في دخائلكم فما أنتم سوى ذلك المعشوق”
― جلال الدين الرومى , رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi