Ideas to change your life

  بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَلَمَن صَبَرَ وَغَفَرَ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِ  Wa laman sabara wa ghafara inna zaalika lamin ‘azmil umoor Ash-Shura (The Consultation) - 42:43  But withal, if one is patient in adversity and forgives - this, behold, is indeed something to set one’s heart upon!   Patience in the face of insults (and even praise) The Prophet ﷺ lived like any ordinary person, devoid of privileges usually associated with leaders. He ﷺ once borrowed some money from a Jew called Zayd bin Sana’a, who narrates the story himself. "Prophet Muhammad ﷺ  was attending the funeral of a man from the Ansar.  Some other companions were with him.  After the funeral prayer he sat down close to a wall, and I came towards him, grabbed him by the edges of his cloak, looked at him in a harsh way and said, ‘O Muhammad! Will you not pay me back my loan? I have not known the family of Abdul-Mutallib to delay in repaying debts!’...

  بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَمۡ يَأۡنِ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ أَن تَخۡشَعَ قُلُوبُهُمۡ لِذِكۡرِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا نَزَلَ مِنَ ٱلۡحَقِّ... Alam ya’ni lil lazeena aamanooo an takhsha’a quloobuhum lizikril laahi wa maa nazala minal haqqi... Part of Al-Hadid (Iron) - Is it not time that the hearts of all who have attained to faith should feel humble at the remem­brance of God and of all the truth that has been bestowed [on them] from on high, 57:16 The time to change is NOW Lesson 1:   Ismail Haqqi (Hakki) Bursevi , a renowned Turkish scholar and mystic, writes in his tafsir Rūḥ al-bayān , one of the most prominent mystical interpretations of the Quran, about the transformative power of this verse. He references the stories of Abdullah bin Mubarak and Malik bin Dinar, illustrating how this verse profoundly impacted their lives. Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) once said: "One day, when I was young, I was in an orchard ...