We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
YASMIN MOGAHEDArrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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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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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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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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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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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 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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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.
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