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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.

Yasmin Mogahed

Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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Beautiful Father Sacrifice
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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Beautiful Heart Pain
Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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Anyone Beauty Sensitivity
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Healing Patience Poison
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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Fall Hurt Mean Resilence
You keep only what you give…to Him.
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Giving Keep Only
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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Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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Giving Knows Nothing
Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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Each Journey Random Unique
If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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Past Thinking 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
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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Hands Healing Heart
In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease.
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Choice Gives Hands Multiple Simple
I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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Choices Either Greatest People Thinking True
Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
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Happening Islamic Real Something Stills
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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Heart Light Pain

If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.

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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.

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