When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.

What can you ever really know of other people's souls - of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do kn…

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right …

Narrated Umm Khalid: I (the daughter of Khalid ibn Said) went to Allah's Messenger with my father and I was wearing a yellow shirt. Allah's Messenger said, 'Sa…

They say that God says to me, 'Forgive your enemies.' I say, 'I do'; but he says, 'I will damn mine.' God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my en…

Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.