FORGIVING AND LETTING NOTHING BUT GOD INTO THE HEART is the end of torments and the beginning of delight and…

FORGIVING AND LETTING NOTHING BUT GOD INTO THE HEART is the end of torments and the beginning of delight and longing.

The nafs has its share in demanding the love of people.

Your rejoicing that someone loves you is evidence that your nafs is tasting pleasure.

If someone loves you, do not rejoice. For it is temporary.

If you love someone, be patient. Time and trial are needed for the truth of your feelings to become clear.

Allah the Exalted made the heart a place for His own gaze.

The Lord made the heart the mirror of His manifestation.

The Most Generous God chose the heart to be the dwelling of faith.

If you let anything else into it, you arouse His jealousy.

The jealousy of the Most Generous, the Most High is the fiercest jealousy of all.

Paining your heart again and again, leaving behind bitter, bitter torments from those you love, He takes everyone away from you.

Then, when you look at your heart, you see that it has turned into clots of blood.

That blood is evidence that the strangers who had clung to your heart and grown into its flesh have been pulled out and torn away.

It hurts terribly.

Very, very much.

Do you know that tears are salty?

The salt of your tears, falling and falling onto the clots of your heart, heals these wounds.

Scar upon scar remains.

Now it is impossible for beauties to enchant this heart.

For the heart has seen the faithlessness and the cunning behind every beauty.

Now it is best for the heart to turn to its Owner.

Let it not reproach those who left it, for they are not to blame; they left by the wisdom of God.

Let nothing but God into your heart.

Open the doors of your heart to none but God.