If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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There’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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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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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 you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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:
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.
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We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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