Ideas to change your life

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ    إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تُؤَدُّوا الْأَمَانَاتِ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهَا   وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُم بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُوا بِالْعَدْلِ    إِنَّ اللَّهَ نِعِمَّا يَعِظُكُم بِهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ سَمِيعًا بَصِيرًا Innallāha ya’murukum an tu’addul-amānāti ilā ahlihā; wa idhā ḥakamtum baynan-nāsi an taḥkumū bil-‘adl; innallāha ni‘immā ya‘iẓukum bih; innallāha kāna samī‘an baṣīrā. An-Nisa 4:58 — Allah commands you to return trusts to those to whom they are due, and when you judge between people, to judge with justice. How good is the instruction Allah gives you. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.   آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَأَنفِقُوا مِمَّا جَعَلَكُم مُّسْتَخْلَفِينَ فِيهِ Āminū billāhi wa rasūlihi wa anfiqū mimmā ja‘alakum mustakhlafīna fīh. Part of Al-Hadid 57:7 — Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and spend out of that over which He has made you trustees.  One of our school drivers retired las...

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ   وَمَا مِن دَآبَّةٍۢ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا ۚ كُلٌّۭ فِى كِتَـٰبٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ Wa mā min dābbatin fil-arḍi illā ʿalallāhi rizquhā wa yaʿlamu mustaqarrahā wa mustawdaʿahā; kullun fī kitābin mubīn. Hūd 11:6   —There is no moving creature on earth whose provision is not guaranteed by Allah. And He knows where it lives and where it is laid to rest. All is written in a clear Record. There is an old report about Ḥātim al-Aṣamm and his teacher Shaqīq al-Balkhī. Before entering the story in detail, it is useful to place two transmitted forms of the report side by side. In the six-lesson version, Shaqīq asked Ḥātim, “Since you have accompanied me, what have you learned?” Ḥātim replied, “Six things. I saw people uncertain about their provision, so I trusted in Allah, because He has said that the provision of every creature on earth is upon Him. I saw that every person has a frie...

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ   كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۗ  وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَـٰمَةِ ۖ  فَمَن زُحْزِحَ عَنِ ٱلنَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ ٱلْجَنَّةَ فَقَدْ فَازَ ۗ  وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا مَتَـٰعُ ٱلْغُرُورِ Kullu nafsin zaaa’iqatul mawt; wa innamaa tuwaffawna ujoorakum Yawmal Qiyaamah; faman zuhziha ‘anin Naari wa udkhilal Jannata faqad faaz; wa mal hayaatud dunyaaa illaa mataa’ul ghuroor. Al-Imran 3:185 — Every soul will taste death. And you will only receive your full reward on the Day of Judgment. Whoever is spared from the Fire and admitted into Paradise has indeed triumphed, whereas the life of this world is no more than the delusion of enjoyment. ( Quran.com ) There is an old story, known in many traditions, of a man who was walking through the wilderness. Perhaps he was travelling. Perhaps he was searching for something. Perhaps, like most of us, he was simply passing through life without fully knowing how...