Compassion

 “Truly we are God’s and truly unto Him is our return” (Qur’an 2:156)

Once Muhammad went together with some of his companions to Abu Yusuf a black smith who was the husband of the nurse of Muhammad’s son Ibrahim. And the Apostle of God took Ibrahim and kissed him and embraced him. On another occasion they went to see Ibrahim, when he was in his dying moments. Then the eyes of Muhammad were fixed, and flowed with tears; and `Abd-al -Rahman, son of `Auf, said to the Messenger of God, “Do you weep and shed tears, O Apostle of God?” He said, “O son of `Auf, these tears are compassion, and feeling due to the dead.” After that he shed tears again, and said, “Verily my eyes shed tears and my heart is afflicted, and I say nothing but what is pleasing to my Benefactor; for verily, O Ibrahim, I am melancholy at being separated from thee.”

love is like a faucet, it turns on and off

“If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.”

--Ibn Ata’illah Iskandari

[Al-hikam al-'Ata'iyyah]

”I miss you most in the morning – when a day without you has just begun.”

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The Loneliness One dare not sound And would as soon surmise As in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size

The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny

The Horror not to be surveyed But skirted in the Dark With Consciousness suspended And Being under Lock

I fear me this—is Loneliness The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate—or seal—

Emily Dickinson – The Loneliness One dare not sound—

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ELYSIUM is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom.

What fortitude the soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door!

– Emily Dickinson

An Undying Light

Not long afterwards he lost consciousness, and A’ishah thought it was the onset of death, but after an hour he opened his eyes. She then remembered his having said to her, “No Prophet is taken by death until he hath been shown his place in Paradise and then offered the choice, to live or to die.” And she understood that this had been accomplished, and that he had returned from a vision of the Hereafter. “He will not now choose us!” she said to herself. Then she heard him murmur: “With the supreme communion of Paradise, with those upon whom God hath showered His favor, the prophets and the saints and martyrs and righteous, most excellent for communion are they.” Again she heard him murmur: “O God, with the supreme communion,” and these were the last words she heard him speak. Gradually, his head grew heavier upon her breast, until the other wives began to lament, and A’ishah laid his head on a pillow and joined them in lamentation.

— Martin Lings, Muhammad, His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Modest

adv; 1.marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself;