In Allah We Trust

Do not lose hope in Allah, for He is the Creator.
He will create another way for you.
Do not flee from your trials;
patience in adversity is the foundation of all virtue,
of compassion and sainthood.
Patience is the foundation,
and without a sound foundation you cannot build a monument.
- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.