Motivation
Iove this written by yasmin mogahed. I have been through some dark times in my life and I have had to make some very hard decisions. But I'll tell you what I've learned. Life isn't supposed to be miserable. It isn't supposed to be excruciatingly painful. It supposed to suffocate or drain you. Are there parts of life that will make you feel this way? Yes. Absolutely. But, why? We *must* ask why. Why do we go through these things? Is it so that we stay still and bear it stoically? Is it to passively endure and call it "sabr" or patience? Absolutely not. In fact we go through misery, pain, suffocation for the exact opposite reason: To push us towards *change*. Movement. Growth. "Sabr" is not standing still. "Sabr" is not being passive. Sabr is the endurance necessary to make the change needed to *move* one step closer to where Allah wants us to be. God created pain, in both the physical and spiritual world, as a wake up call. As a moti