We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThey say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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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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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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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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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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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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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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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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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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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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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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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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 you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.
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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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