When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
YASMIN MOGAHEDSo often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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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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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.
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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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My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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