But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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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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On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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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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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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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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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak’at.
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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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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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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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