December 2011
120 posts
Muharram 1433 - New Year Resolutions
Guidelines for achieving success
PRAY
Ask Allah to help you fulfil your goal. Pray the He grants you a strong willpower and a determination that is more than a mere desire but rather a consistent and productive effort
PURIFY YOUR INTENTION
Why is it you want to reach your goal? Your every action should be driven with the sole aim of gaining the pleasure and closeness of Allah
WORK ON JUST...
“Be consumed with the Creator of All Things rather than with things created.”
“If God sends us stony paths, He provides strong shoes”
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of...”
– Leo Rosten
“Truly if Allah loves a slave He appoints for Him two angels, saying,...”
– Imam Al-Sadiq (as)
“A sincere deed is one for which you want no-one’s praise but Allah’s”
– Imam Al-Sadiq (as)
“I am not anxious about the incursion of poverty among my community. That about...”
– Prophet Muhammad (saw)
“We feed our bodies, because if we didn’t, we’d die. But so many of us starve our...”
– Yasmin Mogahed
“Anything that distracts you from Allah (swt) is your idol.”
– (via lightwithinme)
“You must be enemies of the oppressors and defenders of the oppressed.”
– Imam Ali (as)
“Imam Hasan (as) was asked “What are the 10 strong things that are stronger...”
– Ezsoftech.com
“Supplication is sharper than the spear and the arrow. It wards away calamities....”
– Imam Al-Rida (as)
“The best of all people is the man who tries his best”
– Holy Prophet (saw)
“When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to...”
– Paulo Coelho
“You are good. But it is not enough to just be good. You must be good for...”
– G.Hinckley
“Keep praying for what it is you seek. Impossibility and possibility are merely...”
– Imam Ali (as)
The 90/10 Principle
10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react. What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane may be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other...
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
– C.S. Lewis
Power of Words
I love this story about a group of frogs traveling through the woods. Two of the frogs fell into a pit. After assessing the situation the frogs above yelled to the frogs below, “you’re as good as dead. You’ll never get out of that pit.” But, the two frogs kept trying to jump out of the pit with all of their life.
The frogs above continued to yell down, “give up, you’ll never get out.”...
“When we are born, the Adhan is recited but no prayer is performed. When we die,...”
“The most loved among people is he who benefits others”
– Holy Prophet (saw)
“You might say, “What a dreadful day,” without realizing that the cold, the wind,...”
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth (via thelittlesea)
What is meant by ‘Shaytan’ in the Holy Qur`an?
Shaytan has several meanings, one of the most obvious of them being ‘Iblis and his assistants’, another being ‘corrupt humans’; while at times it is also employed to refer to ‘harmful bacteria’
Tafsir-e-Namuna, vol. 1, pg. 191
“Faith is belief with the heart,
acknowledgement with the tongue and action with...”
– Imam Ali (as)
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about...”
– Eckhart Tolle
“One day a man saw a butterfly shuddering on the sidewalk locked in a seemingly...”
– The Butterfly Story
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Emerson
