We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThere 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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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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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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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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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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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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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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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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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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