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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Yasmin Mogahed

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
Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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Cleaning Dhikr Heart
We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Blessings False Give God Heart
The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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Inspirational Life Love Sometimes
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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Answers Earth Kings
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Believe People Punishment
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
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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Chains Go Letting World
I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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Changing Growth Hurt Life
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
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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Dark Gratitude Loss
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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Destiny Steers Trying
Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Left Praying Whisper
This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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Inner Shelter Storm
Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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Already Full Love Others
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

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

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