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You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Asking Everything Listening Question Sign Speak
In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease.
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Choice Gives Hands Multiple Simple
The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
YASMIN MOGAHED

Bring Close Every Hardship
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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Chains Go Letting World
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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Forever Laughter Perfectly Good
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
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Bigger Hard Hired Picture replace
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Fall Sometimes Transformation
I know you feel worn and tired. I know you’re tired of failing. Rest, but don’t stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
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Failing Feel Strong Tired Worm
We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Blessings False Give God Heart
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
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Assume Believe God People Punishment
If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!
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Encouraging Heartbreak Past
Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Left Praying Whisper
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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Better Inability Mind Sight
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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Empty People Sometimes
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Looking Magazines Righteousness Something

You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

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You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.

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