Self Command

Every passage in Nour Daily filed under self command — 3 passages from named authors — each cited to its source and linked to the publisher.

Nour Daily tags each item in its reminder bank with two or three themes. The tags exist for a practical reason rather than a scholarly one: they let the app space out passages that say similar things, so a week of reminders covers a week's worth of ground instead of circling one idea. Grouping them here makes the collection legible from the outside.

Passages filed under Self Command

Reflection

• Something may suddenly appeal to the believer, who says: I desire you and have need of you, but by Allah, there is no path for me to you.
  Al-Hasan al-Basri — Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 8, chapter on the words of al-Hasan al-Basri
• I have never wrestled with anything more difficult than my intention; it keeps turning on me.
  Sufyan al-Thawri — Al-Jami li-Akhlaq al-Rawi 1/317, report 692
• Some things are in our control and others are not. Begin by knowing the difference.
  Epictetus — Enchiridion 1

Themes that overlap with Self Command

Passages filed under Self Command most often also carry these themes. The overlap is a property of the collection, not an editorial claim about the sources.

• Agency 1 shared
• Restraint 1 shared
• Desire 1 shared
• Sincerity 1 shared
• Intention 1 shared
• Acceptance 1 shared

About these sources

Qur’anic verses are shown in Arabic with a named published translation. Hadith carry the collection and number so the report can be checked at source. Passages from named authors are cited to the work they appear in and are presented as reflections, never as scripture. Where the app's editors condensed a passage rather than quoting a published translation, the item page says so.