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 MOGAHEDWhen 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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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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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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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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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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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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The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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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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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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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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But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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