“Forgive me when I prostrate while my mind is distracted. Forgive me when I repent and then return to sin, for I have no other refuge than You, O Allah.”
Why are people so insecure about their looks… but not their character?
We cover flaws in our faces but leave flaws in our hearts untouched.
A beautiful face will fade, but beautiful character is carried into the grave and weighed on the Day of Judgement.
Most marriages don't end over betrayal. They erode in small moments, both people angry at once, and neither willing to be the one who softens first. The Salaf understood this danger, and one Companion built his whole marriage around avoiding it.
Abū'd-Dardā' (رضي الله عنه) gave his wife Umm'd-Dardā' a single rule to live by:
«إذا غضبتُ فرضِّيني، وإذا غضبتِ رضَّيتُكِ، فإذا لم نكن هكذا ما أسرعَ ما نفترق»
"If I become angry, then win me back. And if you become angry, I will win you back. For if we are not like this, how quickly we would part."
Notice it runs both ways. He doesn't wait for her to repair things. He commits to being the one who mends it, and asks the same of her. Anger met with anger has only one ending.
Someone has to choose to fix it. Every time.
Ibn Ḥibbān in Rawḍat al-ʿUqalāʾ