My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIn dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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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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I know you feel worn and tired. I know you’re tired of failing. Rest, but don’t stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
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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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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.
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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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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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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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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
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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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When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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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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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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Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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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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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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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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