Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
YASMIN MOGAHEDDon’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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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 are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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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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The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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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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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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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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