February 2012
247 posts
“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”
– Czesław Miłosz
On the Day of Judgment it shall be declared, “Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink … WHATEVER YOU DID UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST, YOU DID UNTO ME.”
- Sacred Tradition of Christianity
The person who helps his Muslim brother, Allah will help him both in this world and in the hereafter.
- Mishkat
“Is there any reward for good other than good?”
– Quran 55:60
“Near my abode, there lives
a Great Neighbor,
Alas so near, yet I have failed...”
– Song of Bauls
“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.”
– Seneca
“If you are stone, be magnetic;
if a plant, be sensitive;
if you are human, be...”
– Victor Hugo
“While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and...”
– Matthew 9.10-13
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Watchthe help (my favorite scene “Godless woman”)
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I am surprised at three things…
Man runs from death while death is inevitable.
One sees minor faults of others, but overlooks his own major faults.
When there is any defect to one’s cattle he tries to cure it, but does not cure his own defects.”
- Sayyiduna ‘Umar al-Faruq radiAllahu ‘Anhu
The Golden Rule:
That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
Hillel The Elder
“Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as...”
– Saraha
“The sky where we live Is no place to lose your wings. So love, love, Love”
– Hafiz
“She was the most beautiful garden and Majnun was a torch of longing. She planted...”
– Nizami, The Story of Layla and Majnun (via heartbeatssouldeep)
“I love His power & His gentleness.
I’m amazed at the lover of opposites.”
– Rumi (via saalik)
“God says we need to love our enemies. It hard to do. But it can start by telling...”
– Aibileen Clark - The Help (via 27paperboats)
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“At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.”
– Bentley
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“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That’s how I hold your voice”
– Rumi
“The right thinking man is like the poor: we have him always with us. He is the...”
– Thomas Merton, The New Man (via constructionofmemory)
“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat.”
– Proverbs of Solomon (Sulayman) 25:21 (via casketofpearls)
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one...”
– Victor Hugo (via bodymindandrooh)
“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn’t be that we talk a lot about...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (via tasnuva)
“Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand [by taking...”
– Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him)
(Narrated by Muslim, 49)
Silence
مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْ .. فيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَام .. ! وما أجمل أنْ تضحك فيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك البكـاءْ ..!
How beautiful is it to stay silent
When someone expects you to be enraged from them.
And how beautiful it is to laugh
When someone thinks you are going to shed tears.
“Man
If you have any self-respect,
A heart in your chest,
Brains in your head,...”
– Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol
“I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name. The raw heart beat against the...”
– Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
“In order to discover the character of a people, we have only to observe what...”
– Augustine of Hippo
“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
– Hafiz (via lazyyogi)
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find...”
– Eric Hoffer
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“As minerals in the ground rise inside trees and become tree,
as plant faces an...”
– Rumi
“What you allow into your ears (speech) and what you allow into your eyes...”
– (via becolorblind)
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking...”
– Raymond Carver
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“The path of God’s love leads through the valley of service”.”
– Sufi Saying.
“It is better for you to transport rocks for the righteous than to eat sweets...”
– Malik ibn Dinar (via ssiddiqui90)
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“There are two graces (ni’matan) from which no being can be separated and that...”
– Sidi Ibn Ata’illah (ra)
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“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life....”
– Alfred D. Souza
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who...”
– David Jeremiah
“Do not look to those above you. Look to those below you, as it will more likely...”
– (via mayallahforgivesusall)
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“Love is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal,...”
– Mark Mathabane