In this life, there will come different shades of tiredness. Some people will have minds that have grown tired. For some, it will be their bodies. For other, it's the heart. And then there will be some whose *soul* is tired. These people didn't get there overnight. These are the veterans of this life. The veterans of struggle, defeat. Loss. The veterans of tears and sleepless nights. The veterans of prayer--but not the normal kind. The broken, desperate kind. The kind of prayer that can only come from a wounded heart. To all those who are tired today, I can only ask you to look up to find the strength. Wait patiently, but not passively. Keep your eyes fixed. Don't let the

When you go to a doctor, you trust your affairs to him completely--even when you don't understand the treatment. Even when it hurts. Even when it hurts a lot. You trust him because you know he is curing you. Our hearts are full of spiritual diseases and Allah wants to cure us. But we don't trust the treatment.