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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.

Yasmin Mogahed

Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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God Love People Sake
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Heart Silence Speak Understand
Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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Dunya Islamic Perfect
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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Better Inability Mind Sight
We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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Hurt Islamic Last Running Spend
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
If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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Alarms Play Wake Work
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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Attempts Mold Problem Surgery
If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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Breaking Giving Heart Want
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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Go Heart Letting Mean
The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
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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Assume Believe God People Punishment
Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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Lonely Perfect Sometimes
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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Heart Speak Tongue
My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
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Forever Laughter Perfectly Good

I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.

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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.

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