If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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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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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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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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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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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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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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There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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