Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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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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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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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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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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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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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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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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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
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