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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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Acceptance Healing Hurt
Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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Design Perfect Should
We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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People Truthfulness Two
Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
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God Inspirational Religious
Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
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Account Generosity Giving Withhold
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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Leaving Love People
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
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Faith Inspirational Spiritual
Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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Anyone Beauty Sensitivity
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.
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Bigger Hard Hired Picture replace
We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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Eye Mean Suffering
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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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
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
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
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Ocean Prayer Remembrance
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness

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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