Majestic Sunset

Driving home@dusk

Lessons learned@dusk

Show up, prioritize self care, discover your uniqueness, be the people of gratitude, focus on your personal strength, move forward and be a blessing. Allah's plans are always Majestic 🤍nursakinahthomas@healingheartoheartquotes.

A Gift of Love

Stay Strong

 

Cactus of Resilience

Cactus of Resilience

An amazing gift from an amazing daughter who drew and coloured with deep passion. Truly its an expression of her strength revealing her resilience in the midst of her emotional hardship. She is managing well to  balance and being aligned with her attachment to God as she is able to keep her momentum by turning her struggling moments to rewarding moments. By accepting, moving forward with self compassion &  emotional  resilience, she continues the legacy of living by her values that aspire and inspire as an etraordinary educator by moving forward with deep trust and strong efforts as God helps and guides her to stay balanced to be aligned in His Great Care🤍

Alhamdulillah. Thank you Allah for Your Endless Blessings🤍

Welcome 2024

Sharing my personal reflections as I welcome 2024. It marks 30 years of teaching experience, 10 years of going through struggles being a single parent, 10 years networking with my Turkish counterparts and now moving forward to a new workplace for personal and professional development. Its an amazing gift from challenging moments to rewarding moments❣

Thank you Allah for Your Endless Blessings❤

Finding comfort in discomfort

 

Move on

 

Letting go beautifully

 Things will not be the same anymore, but things will definitely find its way as God is in control. 

Happy Father's Day Dearest Papa

 

The sun will still rise

 The sadness will come and go the hurtful moments will come and go, keep moving as the sun will still rise.

Movement and stillness

 Lessons I am learning:

There is beauty in movement and stillness🤍

There is inspiration in  knowing that our Lord never leaves💗

we need beautiful comforting words in these challenging but rewarding times💛

Truly my Lord is with me, He will guide me through (Q26:62)

Let God guide us

Let God lead us. Submit and accept Him and He will move us in His direction. Be content with Him and He will open ways for us and fill us to ease our journey of life. Be His and let Him lead. Its so amazing as He leads in His own unique design and indeed we are His beautiful masterpiece. Look forward each day as a door of blessings, seek God and call on to Him, He will guide us on His path where we will feel ease and peace

Serene moments

Do what you love, it helps to keep your passion growing.  

There is a deep message in God's creations for us to reflect and learn from the insights.

even the glimpse of sunset can be serene moments

Being Authentic

Its good to fly again 💖

 Situations in life may not be as we expect or as we like, so when we face situations that are not as our expectations, learn to accept and keep being authentic, be ourselves and keep moving. We don't have to struggle to fit in as each one of us has own needs, aims and expectations in life.  If we still try to fit in, it will only cause hurt, so try to make the best of what we can offer from our side, just be authentic and watch how beautiful you can unfold the moments by God's grace for JUST BEING YOU.

Our Pathways Crossed for a Beautiful Reason

A takeaway message for all my dear students, 

Each time when I get a better opportunity to teach in a new university, the most heartbreaking moments is leaving my students. Each one of you has a special place in my heart as it is truly a blessing to know you and I am deeply grateful. I have learned alot from you all. Our journey of life is always filled with amazing moments because in the hurtful moments there are healing moments, in the unpleasant moments, there are pleasant moments. Our pathways crossed for a beautiful reason. God knows what we don't, so stay beautiful, stay focused and keep moving to achieve our aims in life. Life can be a beautiful journey if we learn to appreciate all the blessings God grant us and turn our threats into challenges to build resilience as we keep the momentum. In your journey as a student, running after high grades should not be your focus and learning to be a good person who practices respect, kindness, honesty and all the good attributes should be your focus. May God grant you success in this world and in the hereafter. Thank you for your beautiful prayers, kind words and amazing support. Aameen to all your prayers. If we are not destined to meet again in this world, may we meet in the beautiful gardens of Jannatul Firdaus. Aameen.

Dr Nur@sakeenaheartoheart💖

14 October 2021

10.52pm

Driving home at dusk

Stay Beautiful and Keep Moving

Being attached to life's aims helps us to stay connected with our dreams. There may be lots of distractions when we meet people who don't understand our mission.  They may side track us, so just focus on our aims to keep moving. Place our hope in God and not in humans as God never disappoints us. We get disappointed when we are not able to get what we want, but as we submit to God's will, He will definitely give us what we need, so stay beautiful and keep moving.

Stay beautiful 

Trust the Process

Along the journey of our lives, we may turn to a pathway that makes us unable to move to achieve our aims in life. We may be stuck as we are not able to grow. At these times, never waste our energy and time to seek validation from others and to give explanation to them, just keep moving to achieve our aims in life. There is wisdom behind the situation and when we focus on our aims, we are able to see why God places us in the situation. We may not like the situation, but we can learn from the unpleasantness that can make us more inspired to achieve our aims. Hope and trust in God along the process, never get attached to people who never understands us and also places that can drain our energy and inspiration. Keep moving by focusing on our aims and eventually God will definitely open a new pathway that directs us to grow professionally. Hope in God and have courage to move to a better place. Trust the process, keep moving.

Compassion and Passion

 There are moments in life we get all messed up and we feel like giving up. It happens. We put too much expectations on too many people and when our expectations are not met, we loss hope. At these moments, hold on. We need compassion and passion to restart. Refocus on our aims in life. Have strong hope in God. Place our expectations on God. He is the best of the Planners. 

He knows what we need, so remember self compassion is needed to work on what we love with passion.

With our adorable pussy cats Jess 💕 and Jessy 💕

Jess is full of Compassion

Jessy is full of Passion

As the Sun Sets Beautifully...

 

Sunset at West coast

Look at the sunset, the end of the day is always beautiful. 

When we feel down, learn to validate our emotions, but never dwell in sadness. Prioritise self care at these moments. Self care is taking care of our own needs.  When we are able to take care of ourselves, we are able to take care of our loved ones and others.

As we go through difficult situations, learn to accept the moments, learn to slow down, pause, take a break, then move on. Recharge, redesign, reenergize, but stay focused and  keep the momentum. 

The sun always sets beautifully; its God's amazing design. Learn to trust in His designs, He designs us and takes great care of us. Learn to be thankful for each of His endless blessings as gratitude heals. 

Lessons learned from dawn to dusk

Be persistent on our journey

Life is a journey and everyone has a story. The life struggles on our journey of life are different.  Many people will never validate our inner life struggles so never waste time with worries as it doesn't help. Be grateful to God for granting us few people who validate our inner struggles, as thats the signs of His mercy. Focus on our aims and be persistent on our journey. Keep the momentum. Everything happens for a beautiful reason, so keep moving to keep learning.

🤍Lessons learned 17 July 2021🤍Thank you Allah for Your Endless Blessings.

Stay focused

Each morning is a great blessing from God, wake up with a thankful heart and look forward to receive more blessings as when we are thankful, God increases His blessings. It is God's promise and His promise is true. Its an inspiration to keep believing and moving as we stay focused to reach our ultimate aim which is to seek God's love.

Keep the momentum..

 There are so many challenges but there are also so many blessings. We may never be able to see the future but we can definitely hope & trust in Allah as His promise is true. We may stumble and fall but we can still stand up and move on because God is taking great care of us, so keep going..keep.the momentum💛it is good to leave the past with the present that heals💛Thank you Allah for Your Endless Blessings

Lessons I learned @Uskudar, Istanbul,2020

Trust God in our learning journey

 Learning from harsh challenges is not easy, but we are not alone, so never lose hope. Move with hope as God's help always comes at the right time when we put our hope on Him. Learning is a process and it takes time. Trust God in the learning process and move with courage. God will never leave us. He is with us in our learning journey. Truly, God is our protector and He is the best of Helpers.💛

💛 Keep the momentum, build the trust to feel His presence throughout our learning journey💛

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Nurturing good thoughts

morning brisk walk 

Life is full of challenges, but life is also full of blessings. As we face challenges, we feel very uncomfortable, uncertain, we have the fear and we want to ignore these moments, moreover when there is negative thoughts that fills our thought process. Yes, it is a struggle and we need guidelines to go through and not to ignore it. Dr Omar Suleiman mentioned about passing thoughts and settled thoughts in his sharing about our thought process. Our thoughts can be good or bad and in our thought process, when our thinking is settled, it becomes a deed and then it becomes a habit. There is a need to eliminate the bad thoughts and nurture the good thoughts in our thought process. Ibn al-Qayyim conveyed a beautiful messages about thinking. According to this profound scholar, the only way to rule or overcome negative thoughts is to occupy or conquer our thinking. Thus, as we occupy our thinking, we are engaging our thoughts. A person who always think of God, will naturally be doing deeds for the sake of God and live in sincerity. 

Sharing his talk: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vWi6xxvQ8&t=9s

Ibn al-Qayyim said: “Know that the advent of the thought does not harm, the only thing that harms is summoning it and engaging in discourse with it. So the thought is like the passer-by upon the path, if you do not summon him and you leave him, he passes and abstains from you, and if you summon him; he enchants you with his speech and his deceit and his conceit, and it is the lightest thing upon the vacant fruitless soul, and the heaviest thing upon the heart and soul that is eminent – heavenly – serene.” (Ad-Daa wad-Dawaa p.360)

Ibn al-Qayyim said: “Completeness is only in filling the heart and the conscience with thoughts and intents and cogitation in attainment of the pleasures of The Lord, The Most High, from the servant and from the people, and the consideration of the ways to that and of reaching it. Therefore the most complete of people are those that are the most abundant of them in thought and contemplation and intents for that. Just as the most deficient of people are the most abundant of them in thought and contemplation and intents for his own enjoyments and desires – wherever it should be.” (Ad-Daa wad-Dawaa p.362)

Thus, we should nurture our thought process with good thoughts by practicing remembrance of God, asking for His forgiveness, seeking His pleasure and contemplating, eventually through our constant practice, we can nurture our thinking with good thoughts.💗

The SUN will come again

 There may be thunderstorm but it will pass and the sun will come again. That is  Allah's  design for weather and season; the weather is different during each season; each day the sun will come again after the night. The night and day are Allah's unique designs; see, feel & think life as weather in different seasons. The pain, the hurt, the discomfort or the negative emotion we feel now is like the thunderstorm, it will pass and the sun will rise again. Just focus on our purpose and move on. It's Allah's design to make us realize that He is the Only Savior, He is the Only One we need to through our difficult times and He is the One who will guide us through from the night to the Light.

"Truly my Lord is with me, He will guide me through."(Q26:62)

Stay strong in the Storm- LIFE IS WEATHER

In life, when we face challenging moments, its not about the storm that matters, its actually about how well we manage the storm that matters. In reality its not the external weather that matters, its the internal weather that matters. Yes, its all about how well we manage our emotions as its how well we stay strong in the storm and how well we go through the storm that really really matters because LIFE IS WEATHER. The storm will come and go just as our emotions as life is like weather.

Lessons learned @Uskudar,Istanbul 2020

Truly my Lord is with me, He will guide me through (Quran 26:62)

Truly my Lord is with me

Each day is a gift from our Lord. Learn to appreciate this gift as gratitude heals. Seek our Lord no matter what situation we are going through as when we seek Him, we are protected, guided and defended. Nothing can harm or fear us as we are in His great care and  truly He is with us as His promise is true.

Truly my Lord is with me, He will guide me through (Q26:62)

My Lord's guidance is the sweetness that keeps me going💗

the sun that never sets @ westcoast

New horizons

Each day is a beautiful gift from God, it is a new begining filled with blessings for a new fresh start of life, seek and we shall find, move and we shall reach the destination where the sun never sets💛

the sun that never sets view@ westcoast

The sign of God's love is to bestow three attributes on His lover: A generosity like that of the sea, a kindness like that of the sun, and, a humility like that of the earth.~Abu Yazid Bistami

Resilience on the Journey of Life

Brisk walk at Putrajaya, Malaysia

 In every trials and tribulations there's God's special mercy. Having patience and making efforts are essential to keep the momentum on the journey of life, but having resilience is also needed to stay focused on our journey. This is our own journey of life but we are not alone if we consistently seek God in whatever conditions we go through.  There will be foggy and gloomy days when we cannot see the direction of our journey and at these moments we can  lose our hope, so seek God's help to redirect, refocus as we need to recover in order to continue our journey with hope. Yes, seek the gift of resilience from God. Resilience is one of the gifts God gives us to stay focused and to keep our momentum on the journey of our life and as we take time to recover, be grateful as gratitude heals.

Dawn to Dusk travelogue

Traveling moments are cherishable, each moment captures beautiful feelings and thoughts as living memories, giving deep inspiration, leaving lasting impression on the journey of our life.

https://youtu.be/8pHpjqDxUlM

My Dawn to Dusk Travelogue 

Jordan❤ Turkey💛 Malaysia💚

 January-June 2020

When words inspire the heart

my positive affirmation written few years ago which still inspires me

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Challenges in life is never ending but Blessings in life is also never ending. Sometimes words can hurt us and sometimes words heal and inspire us to keep moving. Writing positive affirmative words really helps as self affirmation helps to mitigate the effects of stress, overcome negative thoughts and manage emotions. Words have power to move us, they inspire us to keep the energy when we meet challenges in life. Sometimes reading again the positive self affirmative words we once wrote can refresh, reenergize and help us to refocus on the purpose of our life to heal and help others heal. Words can always inspire if we deeply contemplate on them as they are truly blessings of inspiration. Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed, I read again my positive affirmations. This is one of the positive affirmations I wrote few years ago when I was going through the storms of life. I still read it to keep my momentum going as challenges are always there but blessing are never ending.

💛My Lord's mercy is my strength, His presence is my inspiration💛 lessons  learned from dawn to dusk

Keep the momentum

Stay focused by placing God in the centre of our hearts as we stive to keep the momentum to reach our ultimate aim in life......seeking God's redha.....  for sure no matters can stop us, no matter how impossible it seems to be; even a diificult egoistic personality or a person with narcissistic personality disorder cannot distract our focus because God is the One Who

 moves us in His amazing ways. Truly He is our source of help, our true refuge, our merciful guide, our compassionate healer.

"Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise......" (Surah Tawbah: 111) lessons learned from dawn to dusk

When the storm strikes again

 When the storm strikes again, we are now able to surf the waves as God helps us in managing our emotions and shifting our perspective to see the goodness in every unexpected situations. God moves us in the right direction by His will as long as we keep our momentum by seeking Him; He never leaves us, He gives us courage and He responses with compassion in every challenging moments. God takes great care of us as He guides us  through each storms of life until we learn to have courage, until we have inner peace where no words can describe but hearts can feel. 

💛My Lord's care is my courage His guidance
is my peace💛lessons learned from dusk to dawn

When one Storm is over

 There is a time we have to go through the rough seas but God made

us stay strong in the storm until we are able to surf the harsh waves; when we reach the shores of serenity we realise who are still with us and who have already left us; for sure things will never be the same anymore, but we have learned to move on with strenght and joy.

💛My Lord's power is my strenght, His presence is my joy💛 lessons  learned from dawn to dusk

Our pathways

Our pathways crossed for a reason but our journey of life is a personal journey and I took the road less travelled. 

We have different expectations and needs, but when our niche becomes the same, our pathways cross again but this time for a beautiful reason.

Truly our Lord is with us, He will guide us through.



Dusk@Istanbul