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I think it's so beautiful when you just smile reading someone's thoughts as they pen them down and realise how much they mirror your mind. SubhanAllah.
You probably think you can drive. So did I. We all do. So we foolishly try to take the steering wheel of our lives. And then as a result, we crash over and over. Because the truth is none of us know how to drive...
My people, so many of us misunderstand istikhara. It's not about seeing a sign or a dream or even necessarily having a feeling about something. Although, any of these may occur. Istikhara is about letting go of the steering wheel. It's about admitting to yourself and God that you don't know the Unseen, and that you are not able to make things happen in the best way. It is the acknowledgement that God *does* know the Unseen, and God *is* able to make everything happen, in the best way. Istikhara is getting out of the driver's seat and asking God to take over the steering wheel of your life, and the decisions you're making.
It is asking Allah to steer and do what's best for you, in this life and the next.
Istikhara is a protection. There are so many times when we are set on a course that is destructive. Istikhara doesn't allow that course to occur. And after istikhara, any course that *does* occur is for our best--even if it bring about pain.
Many people get confused. They wonder why a marriage failed or a job fell apart if they prayed istikhara. But Istikhara doesn't promise a painless path. It promises *what's best in the end*. Sometimes that 'road to what's best' is windy. Sometimes it's covered with thorns.
But always, always, in the end, the destination is where you're meant to be. Where you're meant to fulfill your highest destiny and purpose.
Be careful not to rely on yourself as you navigate through life and make decisions. Be very careful to always, always rely on God. Because every single one of us is blind.
And we *don't* know how to drive.
- Haris
وہ رات کوئی اور ہی تھی...
وہ چاند کوئی اور ہی تھا...
Woh raat koi aur hi thi...
Woh chaand koi aur hi tha...
Some people are peace personified. Even when you see them in a dream, you wake up smiling.
~ mashriqiyyah
The one best for you comes when you aren't even looking
~ mashriqiyyah
There are people who make you feel that you're so hard to love. And then there is someone who loves you in all the right places as if it's as easy as breathing 🤍
~ mashriqiyyah
Once I realised that I may not be good enough for everyone but I am enough for the one who truly appreciates all my versions...life became so much lighter. SubhanAllah.
~ mashriqiyyah
There are those who make excuses to leave ,and there are those who make illusions to stay.
And soon enough you find yourself thanking Allah for all of it that didn't work out the way you wanted.
~ mashriqiyyah
One of the warmest thing someone has done for me is telling me that they read a book because it's my favourite and they kept re-reading it everytime they missed me 🥹🫀
Honestly, exchange of books is one of the greatest love languages to exist 🫶🏻 Alhamdulillah
Get me a book as a gift. Your favorite book. Highlight the lines that make you feel something. Make note of the passages that make you laugh. Mark down the things that make you cry. I want to see exactly the kind of person you are, let me read what makes you, you.
dastaan hoon main ik taveel magar tu jo sun le to mukhtasar bhi hoon
This >>>
“You can be yourself with me.”
And he only said that because he wanted to be himself with her. He wanted, just this once, to show someone the constellations he had kept hidden. And she, with her hidden galaxies, was just the right person to dissect the night sky with.
– Abdulsamad S. M.
And then it's all about giving it your all for someone who's worth more 💌
Intimacy is about safety. The peace you feel in someone’s presence. The ease in their voice when you disagree. Someone’s attentiveness when you are struggling. Their language when they speak about you, someone’s curiosity to learn you and the surrender when it comes to you.