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A. Helwa
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June 11 - November 17, 2021
“Our inability to understand God is our understanding of God.” Our inability to comprehend God’s infinite nature does not mean we cannot have a relationship with God; rather, it means our experience of God begins through admitting our ignorance before His all-encompassing knowledge.
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
“Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.”
The ancient Bedouins would say that just as camel droppings in the desert would tell them that camels passed by, and footsteps in the sand were proof that a creature had walked by, the Earth’s many valleys, mountains, oceans, and constellations point to the existence of a Creator.
“Sometimes you have to lose what you have and find it again for you to know the value of the blessing that you have always owned.”
when Imam Ali was asked “What is creation?” he profoundly said, “It is like the dust in the air, it only becomes visible when the light of Allah strikes it.”
Do not live your life in reaction to what people have done to you, but live your life in gratitude for all that God has done for you.
Rumi says, “Inside the great mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”
No one has the power to make us feel angry. The world can only unveil the anger we already carry within us.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said, “The day you were born is the day God decided that the world could not exist without you.”
“What is meant for you, will reach you even if it is beneath two mountains. And what is not meant for you will not reach you even if it’s between your two lips.” IMAM AL-GHAZALI, 11TH-CENTURY MYSTIC
“If you don’t have time to remember God for thirty minutes, then remember Him for one hour.”
“When you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence.”
“Speak only when your words are more beautiful than the silence.”
