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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDYes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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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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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.
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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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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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We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
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Like 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.
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