I just got news that my grandmother passed away in Sudan. I wasn’t able to see her again because of the war but at least I got to video call her.
Please make duaa for her soul.
Hajji-Alija Mosque in Počitelj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, built in 1563. Destroyed by HVO in 1993.
pray about it. your mood swings, your temper, your ego, your insecurities, your mindset, your self-love, your emotional state, your environment, your relationships, your lack of motivation, your lack of execution, your attraction to bad people. give God every piece of you and every vessel. pray about it all. power of prayer is indescribable.
There’s definitely truth here. Ibn Qayyim mentioned people who struggle with patience but wish to have it by saying,
“If a person does not naturally possess the characteristic of patience, he can attain this characteristic by acting as if he does possess it, until it eventually becomes second nature.
This is what the Prophet (ﷺ) has told us in the hadith, “Whoever tries to be patient, then Allah will help him to be patient.”
Banja Luka, Bosnia, 1930’s. Photograph by Blanche Payne, University of Washington Libraries.