Devine character

As the Arabian caliph Umar ibn Al-Khattab wrote, “He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.”

mām Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (رحمه الله) said:

“An action that is done without sincerity and uprightness is like a traveler who fills his bags with sand on the road — carrying a heavy load that brings him no benefit, only burden.”

He fought falsehoods deeply rooted in culture and identity. His greatest task wasn’t to defeat armies. It was to defeat blindness . The blindness of arrogance. Of inherited belief. Of tribal pride.

“All desire is a desire for

being.

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“The intelligent one is the one who holds himself accountable and works for what comes after death.” — Prophet Muḥammad

Values act like a sieve: they filter out the empty cravings that come from comparison and they let through only the things that genuinely serve your spirit.

Tupac Shakur once said:

“I’m not saying I’m going to change the world, but I guarantee I’m going to spark the mind of the one that changes the world.”

Do what you can't, until you learn that you can.