You know you are getting attached to the dunya when..
1. You dont plan your time around Salah time.
2. A whole day or two passes and you don't open your Qur’an because you are too ‘busy’.
3. You care so much about what people say about you.
little reminder that u are already wrapped in mercy, not because u earned it. but because He is Ar-Rahman & He never stops being Ar-Rahman. not at fajr, not at midnight, not when ur cheeks are wet, not when u’ve just sinned, not when u doubt urself, not when u’re afraid. He is
when parveen shakir said “us ne dekha hi nahin warna ye aankh, dil ka ahwal kaha karti hai” and when ahmad faraz said “ahl-e-mahfil pe kab ahwal khula hai apna, main bhi khamosh raha us ne bhi pursish nahin ki”
When someone said:
And I wondered what it was like to be chosen.
I was never chosen. I was a maybe, a probably, sometimes even a definitely. But never the one.
When Bano Qudsia said "kuch logon k liye masroof zindagi se waqt nikalna parta hai aur kuch ko dil se nikalne k liye zindagi ko masroof karna parhta hai"
leo, this next year is for maturing. you will feel like you're losing yourself, but trust me, you're just improving. you may lose friends along the way, but you'll find better people to surround yourself with. you're leaving your caterpillar stage, and turning into a butterfly.