When 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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIn any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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I know you feel worn and tired. I know you’re tired of failing. Rest, but don’t stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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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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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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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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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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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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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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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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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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