We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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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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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.
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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 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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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
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If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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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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