Inspiration from Past & Present
The good deed illuminates the heart and strengthens the body, while the bad deed darkens the heart and weakens the body.
—Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī [d 110H/728CE]
(Read on pg 86, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
Give your wealth to your Lord, because your heart stays wherever your wealth stays.
—The Prophet ‘Īsā (Jesus Christ)
(Islahi, Amin Ahsan (2002). Tazkiyyah Nafs. Faisalabad, Malik Sons Publishers.)
(Read on pg 77, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
What is important is not how much we have, but how much barakah there is in what we do have.
—Dr. Gohar Mushtaq
(Read on pg 75, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)
A scholar was invited to dinner one evening where he overheard two people engaged in backbiting at the dinner table. He turned to them and said, “Brothers, it is interesting that most people start their dinner with bread but you two have started your dinner by eating the flesh of your dead brother.”
(Read on pg 67, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)