Top 35 A. Helwa Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “As the mystics say, “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’ at the second ask, ‘Is it necessary?’ and at the third gate ask, ‘Is it kind?”

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2. “When thoughts arise, we do not judge them, analyze them, or try to change them – instead, we watch them pass by like clouds floating in the sky of our mind, and gently return our gaze back to the Divine.”

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3. “REMEMBER: Prayer is not about punishment or reward; it is about cultivating a genuine connection with God. The deep purpose of prayer is not to obtain a certain outcome; rather, it is about having an intimate conversation with your Lord.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “You are a palace of hidden gems and the greatest treasure you could ever find is already within you. Gold will melt, money will burn, but you carry the everlasting and mysterious breath of God inside of you and that can never be taken away.”

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6. “As long as your heart is beating, you have a purpose. God is intentional, so He does not keep anyone on Earth that doesn’t have to be here; if we are blessed with more life, it is because someone in the world needs us. If we are alive, it means that what we were sent to this Earth to create has not yet been accomplished.”

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7. “To every cry of, ‘Oh God’. He answers a hundred times, ‘I am here’.”

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8. “The question is not whether God is lovingly speaking to us, the question is, are we open enough to listen?”

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9. “We are all born with spiritual wings, Islam simply reminds us how to fly.”

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10. “Mystics throughout time have said that they believe in God like they believe in light, not because they can see light, but because through it they see everything else.”

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11. “Someone once asked a spiritual master, “What is the end of the path?” The master replied, “The path has no end because the Beloved has no end.”

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12. “Just as the human being cannot see in pure light or pure darkness, but light and dark must blend and interlace for vision to awaken, the Jamal and Jalal complement each other on the path of knowing and experiencing God.”

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13. “We do not worship God because God needs it, we worship God because we need it. Prayer is not you reaching out for God, it is you responding to God, who first reached out to you.”

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14. “Allahumma innaka aafuwon tuhibu al aaffwa fa afu aanni.”

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15. “Even if our doubts span an entire ocean, the light of God’s wisdom can rise beyond the furthest horizons and illuminate our hearts with a deep sense of contentment.”

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16. “The Qur’an does not just call us to outwardly follow rules, but also calls us to integrate God-consciousness on the deepest levels of our hearts.”

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17. “Your blessings, your trials and triumphs, your journey of falling and rising, your gifts and talents – they are all connected. Your true calling is held in the arms of your deepest wounds. God only breaks you to remake you, because breakdowns come before breakthroughs. Everything that God has written into your path was meant to prepare you for this exact moment. God wants you to come as you are, not as you think you should be.”

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18. “As the ninth-century Persian mystic Imam Junaid said, “A Muslim is like the earth; even if impurities are thrown on it, it will blossom into a green pasture.” We are called to be like a date tree, so rooted in the love of God that when people throw stones at you, you reply with fruits that taste sweet. 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.”

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19. “If we pray only when we feel like it, then we are not praying for God, but for our egos to feel a certain way.”

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20. “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.”

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21. “In Arabic, the word fitna, meaning “hardship,” stems from the word fatanah, which means “to test gold, burn with fire.” Just as gold is heated to extract valuable elements from the useless surrounding material, it is through the fire of our trials that our golden essence is unearthed.”

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22. “It is not our prayer and worship of God that makes God love us; rather, it’s God’s unconditional love for us that results in our worship. We do not pray for the love of God, but from the love of God. God’s power inspires and allows us to pray, and it’s that same divine power that we are calling to in prayer. As Rumi says, “I am a mountain. You call, I echo.”

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23. “As Rumi says, “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

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24. “Awakening to faith is not a one-time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.”

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25. “Just as clouds cannot affect the presence and power of the sun’s light, but can alter our experience of the intensity of the light, sin can veil our perception of our inner goodness, but it cannot change it.”

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26. “God pushes us to the edge of the cliff when He wants us to learn how to fly. The difficulties we face can act as catalysts for self-discovery and growth. The core Islamic teaching.”

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27. “Just as it takes a baby nine months in the belly of its mother to develop, the moon many nights to become full, and a caterpillar weeks in a cocoon to become a butterfly, through entering the womb of Ramadan and fasting the entire month, our faith transforms.”

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28. “Prayer, then is a means of undressing the ego of its superficiality and coming to the Divine presence with all of our neediness and humility.”

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29. “We do not need to understand every element of our sin to let go of it. The seed doesn’t need to understand the nature of the sun’s light to be moved and transformed by it.”

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30. “Love. It is the reason there is something instead of nothing. It is from the soil of love that all of existence blossoms into being.”

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31. “Even if you cry in the darkness of the night, even if you dive beneath the waves of the sea where your salty tears are imperceptible to human eyes, God sees you. God embraces your pain.”

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32. “The eternal destination of others has no effect on how Muslims are called to treat the creation of God. Our love, respect, and honor toward others should not be contingent on someone’s faith or belief system, but on our faith. Since we believe every single person was created by God and is continuously sustained by Him, the life of every human being is infinitely priceless, regardless of what they believe or seek in this life and the next.”

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33. “The prophets are like different rivers throughout time that all pointed to the same ocean of unity.”

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34. “Now tell me how you can assume that God would take care of everything in this Universe and not take care of you?”

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35. “The Qur’an is not a destination or wall – it is a window. It does not call us to it, but rather calls us to look through it and toward the mysterious essence of God that animates everything in existence.”

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36. “The Qur’an is a divine map, a flashlight in the dark night, a compass that leads us back to the home we left so long ago.”

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