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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Greatest Love Tests
When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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Creation Our Rectify Relationship
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
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
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Grateful Pushes Wounds
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.
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Direction Heart One Running
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Fall Succeeds Taken Thinking
Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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Dunya Islamic Perfect
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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Blessing Heart Thinking
Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
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God Hands Heart Hope People
My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
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Bad Laughter Life Perfectly
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Focus Inspiration Prayer
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
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Heart Helping
If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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Past Thinking Two
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness

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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