Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
YASMIN MOGAHEDYour worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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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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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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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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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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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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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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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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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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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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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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You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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