My pain will die. 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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDBefore anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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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.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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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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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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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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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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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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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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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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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