Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.
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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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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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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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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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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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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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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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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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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We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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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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So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
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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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Resilience 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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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
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Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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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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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being.
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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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