If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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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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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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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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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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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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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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We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites.
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Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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