Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThis world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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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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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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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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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
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Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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