Reclaim Your Heart
Yasmin MogahedEn Eski Reclaim Your Heart Sözleri ve Alıntıları
En Eski Reclaim Your Heart sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Reclaim Your Heart kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.So to the question, once something is lost, does it return?' the answer is, yes. It returns. Sometimes here, sometime there, sometimes in a different, better form. But the greatest gift lies beneath the taking and the returning. Allah tells us: "Say, 'In the bounty of Allah and in His mercy-in that let them rejoice; it is better than what they hoard."" (Qur'an, 10:58)
...we turn our wants into needs, and our one true need (God) into a commodity we think we can do without. Our true suffering begins when we confuse the means and the End. God is the only End. Every other thing is the means. We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means. In fact, the truc purpose of the gift itself is to bring us to God. Even the gift is a means. For example, does the Prophet not say that marriage is half of deen? Why? If used correctly, few other parts of this life can have such a comprehensive effect on the development of one's character. You can read about qualities like patience, gratitude, mercy, humility, generosity, self-denial, and preferring another to yourself. But, you won't develop those qualities until you are put in a situation in which they are tested.
Gifts like marriage will be a means to bring you closer to God-so long as they remain a means, not an End. God's gifts will remain a means to Him, so long as they are held in the hand, not the heart. Remember that whatever lives in the heart controls you. It becomes what you strive for and are willing to sacrifice anything to have. And to keep. It becomes what you depend on at a fundamental level. It, therefore, must be something eternal, that never tires, and never breaks. It must, therefore, be something that never leaves. Only one thing is like that: The Creator.
Seek God
And when He saves you, beg forgiveness for the fall, feel remorse over it -but not despair.
As Ibn ul Qayyim (ra) has said: "Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again."
The Search for Love
Allah is Al Wadud (The Source of Love). Therefore, love comes from God not people. As one author, Charles F. Haanel, put it: "To acquire love fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet."
When you fill yourself with the Source of love (Al Wadud), you become a magnet for love. Allah teaches us this in the beautiful hadith Qudsi:
"If Allah has loved a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel (on whom be peace) and says: 'I love So-and-so, therefore love him."" He (the Prophet pbuh) said: "So Gabriel loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in heaven, saying: "Allah loves So-and-so, therefore love him.' And the inhabitants of heaven love him." He (the Prophet pbuh) said: "Then acceptance is established for him on earth. (Muslim Bukhari, Malik, & Tirmidhi)
We're all running. But so few of us are running in the right direction. We have the same goal. But to get there, we need to stop. And examine if we are running towards the Source-or just a reflection.
The beauty of the tests of Allah (swt) is that after notifying us that they're coming. He gives us the exact recipe for succeeding in them: Sabr (patience) and Taqwa (God-consciousness).
Allah (swt) says: "The present world is only an illusory pleasure: you are sure to be tested through your possessions and persons; you are sure to hear much that is hurtful from those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate others with God. If you are steadfast (have sabr) and mindful of God (have taqwa), that is the best course." (Qur'an, 3:185-186)