Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
YASMIN MOGAHEDWhen 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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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.
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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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Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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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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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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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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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
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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.
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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