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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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Blessing Heart Thinking
The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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Attempts Mold Problem Surgery
But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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Dark Heart Ocean Remember
Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Left Praying Whisper
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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Around Believe Everything Thing
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
I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes.
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Character Fashion Heart
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Drawn Knows Looks Want
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
On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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Give Up Islamic Prayer
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
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Mirages Traveler Water
Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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Breaks Heal Heart
Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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Home Islamic Looks
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
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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Dunya Islamic Reality

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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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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