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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDFor 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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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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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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