My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
YASMIN MOGAHEDResilience 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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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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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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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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They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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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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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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.
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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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