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"Had there been within the heavens and earth gods besides God, they both would have been ruined."

In this verse, God tells us what would have happened had there been more than one object of worship in the heavens and the earth: corruption and ruin. If the heavens and the earth, in all their majesty, would have been ruined by taking more than one object of worship, what about the fragile human heart?

“Therefore, the way to protect the heart is to keep it soft, and to strengthen the fortress surrounding it. That fortress is built with the remembrance of God. And the heart is nourished with the oxygen and food of athkar. Every day should consist of a strict adherence to the aforementioned thikr pre-scription: Salah, daily athkar, and Quran.”

Granting [Musa’s] (AS) duaa gave him expansion, which eased his task and carried him through.

Often we wish that our fears and our grief and all our problems could just disappear. But this life is not jannah (paradise). This life is inherently imperfect. […]

There will always be some fear. There will always be some grief. Some loss. Some pain. There will always be storms. But there is a way to navigate.