You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
YASMIN MOGAHEDSeek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
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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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Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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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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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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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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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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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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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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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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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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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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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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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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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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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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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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