January 2011
Seeking Islamic Knowledge: Sinning and Repentance →
After committing a sin, a person who fears Allah and give high respect to Him would feel a sense of despondency and despair thinking, “How will God forgive me for this sin?” However, it is noteworthy that despairing of God’s mercy is in itself one of the major sins in Islam for God is ever…
“If God lacked patience and mercy, all of you would long ago have been punished....”
– Qur’an, Al-Nour, Surah 24:20-21 (via skribbler)
“If you desire Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, be...”
–
Imam Ahmed Ibn Hanbal
(via thatunexpectedtruth)
“You don’t know what the future holds, but you know Who holds it. Tawakal ‘alaa...”
– (via thatunexpectedtruth)
“Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgement shall...”
–
[al-Imran 3:185]
(via thatunexpectedtruth)
“ Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the...”
– Al-Hasan Al-Basree (via thatunexpectedtruth)
“Despite their condition, who are we to look down on our fellow brothers and...”
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“Despite their condition, who are we to look down on our fellow brothers and...”
– (via thatunexpectedtruth)
“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to...”
– Ellen Hopkins (via katelizabeth)
“It’s when I’m standing six feet away from you and not being able to find the...”
– A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Bad habits had in fact developed in our friend in no small number, especially of...”
– Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (via thechocolatebrigade)
“But in the end, back she comes. There’s no use resisting. She goes to him for...”
– The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (via thechocolatebrigade)
“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when...”
– Mike Gayle (His ‘n’ Hers)
“I made a mistake when I bound up my life with hers, but in my mistake there was...”
– Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (via thechocolatebrigade)
“All human love is a dramatic enactment of the wild, reckless, unquenchable,...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect...”
– Bell Hooks (Communion: The Female Search for Love)
“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That...”
– Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via katelizabeth)
If you really want me, forget them. If you want...
I wanted to tell him how I can’t get him off my mind or how the mere though of him makes my heart skip a beat and how I blush anytime someone says his name, but somehow, it didn’t come out like that at all. It just came out “I’ll always be here” …which was true.
“I miss you when something really good happens, because you’re the one I want to...”
– Author Unknown (via katelizabeth, justbesplendid)
waldosia
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
My body isn’t perfect. I don’t walk with...
“You felt no reality, no knife of sorrow cut your intestines to bits. Only a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via katelizabeth)