Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
YASMIN MOGAHEDYes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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They 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.
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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
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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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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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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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The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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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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When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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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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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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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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