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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

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
I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes.
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Character Fashion Heart
It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Greatest Love Tests
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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Cleaning Healing Hurt Pain
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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Attachment Important Islamic
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Heart Helping
Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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Crave Hawa Miserable Satisfied
The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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Helped Ones Oversight Random
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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Dirt Religion Today
Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
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God Hope Men Problem Thinking
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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Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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Deeds Forgiving God Hope Sin
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Believe People Punishment
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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Answers Earth Kings
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Faith Inspirational Spiritual
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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Easier God Inspirational Outside Religious

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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