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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDBreak 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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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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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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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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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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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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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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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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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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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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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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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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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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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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