This moved me deeply...

"On sacrificing for our children.

Aisha (ra) reports, "A poor woman came to me carrying her two daughters. I gave her three dates to eat. She gave each child a date, and raised the third to her own mouth to eat it. Her daughters asked her to give it to them, so she split the date that she had wanted to eat between them. I was impressed by what she had done, and told the Messenger of Allah about it. He said, ‘Allah has decreed Paradise for her because of it.'"

One (seemingly) small sacrifice for her children earned this woman paradise. How many times have we sacrificed things for the sake of our children?

There are parents who take the food out of their mouths so that their children can eat. The mothers of Somalia are doing this now. There are parents who move across continents and cultures, living in difficulty and surrounded by unfamiliar languages, just so that their children will be safer, happier, more successful. How many of our parents did this for us?

The truth is, every day we sacrifice something for the benefit of our children. Sometimes it's conscious, sometimes not. When you're putting that morsel of food in your child's mouth, or giving up that extra hour of sleep in the morning, or canceling your plans because your child is sick...when you're doing all of that, it's not for nothing.

Our sacrifices don't go unnoticed.

It always astounds me how "little" we actually have to do in order to earn Allah's pleasure. We're shown again and again in the teachings of Muhammad (saw) that it's the simple acts that often come with the greatest reward.

The prostitute who gave a thirsty dog water. She was forgiven for all her past sins because of that one act.

The man who killed 100 people, but was seeking forgiveness and journeying to a land of purity. He died before he could even get there, but he was forgiven.

The condition always was - they knew sincerity. We have to know sincerity, and it has to know us.

We're not tasked with having to change the whole world, we just have to be willing to fulfill our immediate responsibilities with love, sincerity, and ihsan. Sometimes that means giving charity, or doing community work, or traveling to do speeches...

But sometimes feeding our children is enough, if our hearts are truly present. Is your heart truly present?"

-- Asmaa Hussein
(Via Yasmin Mogaged)

♡❤TRUST IN ALLAH❤♡