Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

by A. Helwa

We must learn to forgive ourselves for the things we did not know, before we had the opportunity to learn them.

our fallibility cannot make an unchanging God love us any less.

choose to consciously return your heart to Allah, for it is only in His remembrance that you can truly find peace.

Where guilt says something we did is wrong,

When we experience periods of loneliness or hopelessness, asking why people always have to leave, why nothing lasts forever, why everything around us feels like an illusion, we are in a state of la ilaha, which is a holy part of the process, so long as we keep walking to illa Allah.

Just as if you want light in your room you must open the blinds, if you want the shadows and dark places in your being to dissolve, you have to open your heart to the light of Allah.

apologize when we are wrong,

to forgive others when they are wrong,

to give freely of wha...

to not hold back our words o...

to be honest with our...

to pray with every ounce of o...

to not put off doing our s...

to see this moment as the only mo...

to manifest God’s qualities of love, mercy, compassion, and equality upon all people...