We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThere’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
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Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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