When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody notices, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

- John Lennon (via empirestateofnoor)

“But everything that you and I know, everything in this domain, everything that you and I participate in, everything that you and I know and talk about and live and eat and breathe and all of our life – it’s creation through and through, top to bottom, left and right.

And everything single one of those things, every one of them, even [down] to the atom, even down to the quark inside of the atom, Allah said that ‘There’s nothing that We haven’t created but we created it in pairs.’

You don’t know black unless you’ve seen white; you don’t right unless you’ve seen wrong; you don’t know up until you’ve been down. You don’t know happiness until you’ve had a little bit of grief; you don’t know grief until you’ve tasted happiness.

Allah creates everything in pairs – la’lakum tadhakkaroon – so that you might be a people of remembrance, that you might be a people who contemplate, that you be a people that reflect, that you be a people who mention – that you reflect, that you mention, that you contemplate, that you remember the blessings of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala upon you.

Because if you do not have the opposite of something, you do not know what it is that you have.”

- Abdul Latif Finch