When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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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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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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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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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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I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
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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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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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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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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.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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