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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDResilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
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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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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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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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Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
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If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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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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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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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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