Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
YASMIN MOGAHEDNever lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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So 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.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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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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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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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than 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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