The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
YASMIN MOGAHEDLike the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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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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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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On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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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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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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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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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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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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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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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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