Grudges

source: http://www.ashrafiya.com/2015/03/18/grudges


Our master Abu Hurayra (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him), said,

“The gates of Paradise are opened every Monday and Thursday. Every slave who has not associated any partner with Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) is forgiven except one who has enmity with his (Muslim) brother. It is said regarding them “Leave them until they make peace with each other”.

Explanation: The meaning of this Hadith is explained by another narration which Imam Mundhiri (rahimahullah) has narrated in Targheeb wa Tarheeb with reference to Awsat Tabrani.  It is stated in that narration that everyone’s deeds are presented (to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala) every Monday and Thursday. Whoever asked for forgiveness is forgiven, and whoever made Tawba, his Tawba is accepted. But the deeds of those who keep a grudge against each other are returned (meaning their istighfar and tawba are not accepted) until they stop having a grudge against each other. There are also some other Hadith regarding this topic. It is learnt from them that if a Muslim has a grudge against his Muslim brother then he does not deserve the mercy and forgiveness of Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) until he cleans his heart from this grudge.

Source: Hadith # 411, Al-Adab Al-Mufrad by Imam Bukhari (rahimahullah) with Urdu translation and explanation by Maulana Muhammad Khalid Sahab Khangarhi

While you're studying, don't let a day pass without praying 2 rakat salat ul hajat, asking Allah swt to accept you for the service of deen. 

- Abdul Rehman Ibn Yousuf

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The Difference

You want to know the difference between the master and the the beginner?

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Why?

Whatever is gonna for Allah swt, that will endure. That will remain. Only that. 

Time

Time is in the hands of God. Give some to Him, He will open it up for you.

Raabta

Never think that you have angered or annoyed the shaykh by telling him your spiritual condition and faults, or that you have lowered yourself in his eyes. You have only raised your status in this faqīr’s
heart by being open and truthful. It may be that the devil (shaytān) tries to delude you into only writing good points about yourself from now on, but know that this would be fatal for your spiritual progress. I am hopeful that you will not be a hypocrite to yourself in this matter. There is no better judge in this world than one’s own conscience. I am hopeful that you will keep me informed of your condition from time to time. It is foolish to conceal one’s illness from one’s doctor.

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Lover?

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In the darkness of the night, cooed a pigeon
On a branch, in weakness, while I was asleep.

I lied; By Allah, were I a lover,
The pigeon would not have outpaced me in weeping.

I assume I am lovesick, love struck
But I weep not, while animals weep.

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In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Alif, Lam, Mim, Do the people think that they will be left in the position that they say, `We have believed’, without their being tried? We tried those who were before them’ (Q. 29, 1)

"When you make true dhikr of Allah, the problem doesn't go away, but the worry of the problem does." - Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed

The proximity between the truth and falsehood does not make the truth falsehood nor falsehood truth. 

- Imam Ghazali (ra)

Discipline

Discipline is doing what is hard and necessary rather than what is
fun and easy and doing it when it’s necessary, whether you feel like doing it or not.

Brian Tracy

"For days to come, it will be the first thing you will think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing."

Reynolds Reddington

With you, intimacy colours my voice even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here'.

—  Warsan Shire

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like ‘be realistic.’”

— Dylan Moran

Quotes from Rujuta Divekar

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Typography

Immaculate typography is certainly the most brittle of all the arts. To create a whole from many petrified, disconnected and given parts, to make this whole appear alive and of a piece - only sculpture in stone approaches the unyielding stiffness of perfect typography. For most people, even impeccable typography does not hold any particular aesthetic appeal. In its inaccessibility, it resembles great music. Under the best of circumstances, it is gratefully accepted. To remain nameless and without specific appreciation, yet to have been of service to a valuable work and to the small number of visually sensitive readers - this, as a rule, is the only compensation for the long, and indeed never-ending, indenture of the typographer.

— Overheard on the Internet

What? How?!

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 12)

"...research shows that low-level distractions can make a task feel boring..."

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Thoughts

Everyday, you are going to have 60,000 conscious thoughts. And  each of these thoughts is either going to be bringing you closer to achieving your goals, or further away.

Lord's Prophets

Lord's prophets are not men in fancy cloths.