Dua, Prayer

"Our Rabb! do not punish us if we forget or make a mistake.  Our Rabb! Do not place on us a burden as You placed on those before us.  Our Rabb!  Lay not on us the kind of burden that we have no strength to bear.  Pardon us; Forgive us, Have mercy on us.  You are our Protector, help us against the unbeliever."                                                                                                                                         Quran : Al-Baqarah 2:286

Kind Words And Forgiveness

"Kind words and forgiveness are better than charity followed by injury".                                                               Quran, Surah Baqarah 2:263

Signs and Righteousness

 "Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, in the alteration of the night and the day, in the sailing of the ships through the oceans for the profit of mankind, in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, with which He revives the earth after its death and spreads in it all kinds of animals, in the change of the winds and the clouds between the sky and the earth that are made subservient, there are signs for rational people."                                              Surah Al Baqarah 2: 164 

Righteousness is not whether you turn your face to the East or the West,  but righteousness is to believe in Allah, the last day, the angels, the books, and the prophets, to spend wealth inspite of love for it, on relatives orphans, helpless, needy travellers, those who ask for it and on the redemption of captives; to establish Salah, to pay Zakat, to fulfill promises, when made, to be steadfast in poverty, hardship and at the time of war.  Those are the ones who are truthful and those are the ones who are pious."                                                                                                                                 Al Quran, Surah Al Baqarah 2: 177

Steadfastness

"We shall surely test your steadfastness with fear and famine, with loss of property, and produce.  Give good news to those who endure with patience, who when afflicted with calamity say, "We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return".  Such are the people on whom there are blessings and Mercy from Allah, and they are the ones that are rightly guided".                                                   Suray Al Baqarah 2: 157

May Allah not give us a test that we do not have the strength to bear and May Allah include us among these righteous people.  Aameen.