Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.

— Rudyard Kipling

Sometimes we need the world and all the people on her to abandon us so we can turn to the One who will never leave us stranded.

— Aisha Mirza

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with Na`I'm (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols of the heart.

— Yasmin Mogahed

So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corruption, a low-budget divinity passing itself off as the genuine article. (Ask the Gnostics.) They trust in Jesus Christ, a historical cipher stitched together like Frankenstein's monster out of parts robbed from the graves of messiahs dead and buried - a savior on a stick. They trust in the virgin-pimping Allah and his Drum Major Mohammed, a prophet-come-lately who pioneered a new genus of hum buggery for an emerging market of believers that was not being adequately served by existing religious products. Furthermore, they trust in anything that authenticates their importance as persons, tribes, societies, and particularly as a species that will endure in this world and perhaps in an afterword that may be uncertain in its reality and unclear in its layout, but which states their craving for values "not of this earth" - that depressing, meaningless place their consciousness must sidestep every day.

— Thomas Ligotti

So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief;Verily, with every difficulty there is relief. Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labor hard, And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention.

— Anonymous

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakir ad-Din Ararat, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes sweeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.

— Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.

— Yasmin Mogahed

The beauty of having faith, is that no matter what the time of day, whether it be day or night I know that someone is always there with me to give me comfort. It doesn't matter whether it is Buddha, God or Allah because whoever it is, is special to each of us. And that is the beauty of having faith.

— Anthony T. Hincks

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream

— Yasmin Mogahed