Don't hold grudges!

"Don’t hold grudges, even if you feel you are being treated badly, be the first to apologize.Don’t let the dunya (life) and little things hold you back, keep reminding yourself of your destination and where you want to get to. 
The heat and the fire of revenge you feel in your heart is the biggest whisper of Satan, don’t ignite the fire further put a stop to it. 
Don’t be a stone, become water, that changes directions when obstacles are put in its way and always reaches its destination."

-Shaykh Muhammad Saqib bin Iqbal al-Shaam

a single word can brighten the face..

A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silence, a single word
acquires a great energy for work.
War is cut short by a word,
and a word heals the wounds,
and there's a word that changes
poison into butter and honey.

{Yunus Emre}

Ya Nabi (S.A.W).. a beautiful naat

kamli walay mein qurban teri shan per,

sub ki bigri banana tera kaam hai,

thokrain kha ke girna mera kaam hai,

her qadam pe uthana tera kaam hai

Faiz jari tera ta qayamat rahay

teri nabiyon pe qaayam imamat rahay,

teri naatain sunana mera kaam hai,

mere gham ko mitana tera kaam hai ..

Saaqiya jaan qurban tere jaam per,

ho nigaah-e-karam apne khudaam per,

chor di hum ne kashti tere naam per,

ab kinaray lagana tera kaam hai.

tu ne qatray ko dekha gohar ker diya,

tu ne zarray ko dekha to zar ker diya,

tu ne habshi to rashk-e-Qamar ker diya

ulta sooraj phirana tera kaam hai. 

Man fears to confront...

Then again, that was how she was. She

never confronted the death of anything, be it a habit, a

phase, or a marriage, even when the end stood right in

front of her, plain and inevitable.

(Forty Rules of love (Elif Shafak)

That's what we are like manyatimes in our life. We don't confront things that we are sure going to come. Some call it hope but more than hope it is non-acceptance. Hope is when we know that we'll survive the storm, not expecting it not to come!