Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
YASMIN MOGAHEDEverything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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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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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites.
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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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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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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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