Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.
YASMIN MOGAHEDYes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
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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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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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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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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!
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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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If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
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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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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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