Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
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For 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.
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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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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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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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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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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.
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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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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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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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