I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect. Most people opt for the easiest version rather than the best.

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T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

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Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

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islamic heart trying

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

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generosity als giving

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

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islamic fake-people hypocrite

Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.

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empty sometimes people

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

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nafs scream desire

Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.

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knees perfect thinking

Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.

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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

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forgiving sin deeds

Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.

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islamic home looks

Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.

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sea reality looks

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!

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love-allah fashion my-sister

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

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arrogance ignorance world

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

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ugliness reflection self

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

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pain compassion looks

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.

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helping people firsts

To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.

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islamic forever people

Seek those who help you hear your own heart.

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heart helping

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).

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