❝ An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.
There are some days when the wind just keeps blowing against you.
❝ Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
— Morticia Addams
❝ Hold onto the sunnah prayers, for if the righteous leave the sunnah prayers the average ones will leave the obligatory.
— Shaykh Abdulbary Yahya
My Shaykh Vs. Your Shaykh
The Prophet peace be upon him said:
Wisdom is the lost property of the believer; wherever they find it it’s theirs
This narration means that even if an Atheist says something wise, as a Muslim I can take it and apply it, and that’s someone who might have 98% of what they say be rejected, but that other 2%, if it’s good, as a Muslim I have a right to it, and I will take it. What about our scholars? These are people who had 98% of what they said be good. Unfortunately, because we like to personalize everything, and we “enjoy” character assassinations, if a scholar held unorthodox views in 2% of what they said, we’re more than willing to throw that and the 98% of good out to the ocean, and follow that with spitting at it.
❝ It is enough lying for a man to speak of everything that he hears.
— The Prophet peace be upon him (Narrated by Muslim in al-Muqaddimah, 6; Saheeh al-Jaami, 4482)
❝ Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
Alhumdulillah.
❝ You are the average of the five people you associate with the most.
❝ Do not fall into the sin and oppression of painting all Jewish people with the same brush that painted all Muslims terrorists.
❝ A deserted man holding on to a wooden board in the middle of the sea being tossed to and fro by waves is not in any more need of Allah than you are, sitting where you are.
— Ibn Qudāmah
Dead Enough: The Reality of the "Lesser Evil"
“It’s when I read an article so good that I regret being alive and held accountable during the reign of the most eloquent murderer of our age: the Drone King Obama.” - Abu Eesa Niamatullah
