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YASMIN MOGAHEDWhen we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.
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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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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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