Status Updates From النبي

On Time ⏰

• Past and Future flow together
• Time Lives within you
• Now is everything
• Do not chase it
• Be Present

✨ “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

On Talking 🗣️

• Words can wound or heal
• Silence has wisdom
• Speak from truth
• Let meaning breathe
• Listen Deeply

✨ “In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”

On Friendship 🤝

• Friendship is honesty
• Silence matters
• Share Joy & Sorrow together
• Freedom within closeness
• Expect nothing ever

✨ “Your friend is your needs answered.”

On Teaching

• Teaches awaken, not fill
• Light passes through
• Learning is shared
• Wisdom already lives in you
• Guide, do not command

✨ “The teacher leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”

On Self Knowledge 🪞

• You are an ocean of knowledge
• Truth unfolds slowly
• Look inward gently
• Mystery remains
• Knowing is becoming

✨ “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”

On Pain 💉

• Pain breaks the shell
• Growth hurts
• Suffering teaches depth
• Healing comes through feeling
• Do not resist pain

✨ “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

On Reason & Passion 🧠💃🏽

• Both must coexist
• Passion steers the soul
• Reason keeps course
• One without the other falls
• Harmony is wisdom

✨ “Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns.”

On Freedom 🕊️

• Freedom begins within
• Not escape but truth
• Face yourself honestly
• Fear is the real chain
• Let go inwardly

✨ “You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care.”

On Laws 👨🏻‍⚖️

• Laws reflect fear and hope
• Too many laws choke life
• Live justice inwardly
• Law without spirit is empty
• Freedom comes first

✨ “You delight in laying down laws, yet you delight more in breaking them.”

On Crime & Punishment 🫆

• Crime lives in all of us
• Judge gently
• Punish with understanding
• Justice needs mercy
• Heal, do not harden

✨ “The wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.”

On Buying & Selling 💰

• Trade with fairness
• Honour with exchange
• Profit without harm
• Human value first
• Community over greed

✨ “Let neither buyer nor seller cheat the other.”

On Clothes 👙

• Clothes hide and reveal
• Be seen as you are
• Freedom lives beyond fabric
• Beauty isn’t decoration
• The soul needs no costume

✨ “You may cover your nakedness, but not hide it.”

On Houses 🏡

• A House is not a cage
• Shelter, not escape
• Leave space for the soul
• Let light & Wind in
• Home should breathe

✨ “Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast.”

On Joy & Sorrow 🎭

• They arrive together
• Sorrow deepens joy
• One reveals the other
• Feeling fully is living fully
• Do not refuse either side

✨ “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

On Work ⛓️

• Work is love made visible
• Labour gives meaning
• You weave yourself into the world
• Work fills time with soul
• Do it with devotion

✨ “Work is love made visible.”

On Eating & Drinking 🥯

• Eat with Joy
• Honour the earth
• Gratitude makes food sacred
• Let hunger teach humility
• Pleasure can be prayer

✨ “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet.”

On Giving 🎁

• True giving is invisible
• Always give from the heart
• Not things, but yourself
• Giving nourishes both sides
• Joy lives in generosity

✨ “You give but little when you give of your possessions.”

On Children 🧑🏽‍🍼

• Children pass through you
• They belong to life not to us
• You guide them not shape them
• They have their own destiny
• Love them without ownership

✨ “They come through you but not from you.”

On Marriage 💍

• Together, not fused
• Space keeps love alive
• Growth side by side
• Share life not souls
• Balance closeness and distance

✨ “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”

On Love 🩵

• Love demands surrender, not safety
• It lifts you and wounds you
• Growth comes with pain
• Love reshapes you completely
• Freedom always over possession

✨ “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”

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