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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.

Yasmin Mogahed

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
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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Dark Gratitude Loss
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
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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Dark Heart Ocean Remember
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Drawn Knows Looks Want
Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.
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God Mind Personal Relationship Throughout
Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
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Happening Islamic Real Something Stills
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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Home Islamic Land
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
Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.
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Empty People Sometimes
We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak’at.
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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
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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Blessing People Two
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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God Hope Men Problem Thinking
So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
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Easier God Inspirational Outside Religious
The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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Awakening Believe Dream World
Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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Born Hate Motivated

It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.

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