I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
YASMIN MOGAHEDWe cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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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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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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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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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.
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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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