When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIf you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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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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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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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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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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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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