My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
YASMIN MOGAHEDMy value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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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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Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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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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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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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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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.
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