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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

Yasmin Mogahed

The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Bring Close Every Hardship
If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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Life Love Loyalty Real
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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Deeds Forgiving God Hope Sin
We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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Hurt Islamic Last Running Spend
When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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Acceptance Healing Hurt
We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak’at.
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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
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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Answers Earth Kings
My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
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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Blessing People Two
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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Crave Hawa Miserable Satisfied
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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Cleaning Healing Hurt Pain
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Focus Inspiration Prayer
When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
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Chance Generously Love Messing
Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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Gift God Worship
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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Assume Believe God People Punishment
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness

This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

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