When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIgnoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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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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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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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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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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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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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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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
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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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