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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.

Yasmin Mogahed

Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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Design Perfect Should
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.
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Competition Honor Men Need
This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.
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Changing Ever Fading Unmoving
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Heart Helping
There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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Beautiful Change Laughter
Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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God Love People Sake
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Combination Islamic Strong
We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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Covered Creation God Mistake Planets
But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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Dark Heart Ocean Remember
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness
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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Encouraging Heartbreak Past
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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Dark Gratitude Loss
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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Breaking Heart Islam
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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Beautiful Breathtakingly Feel Sadness
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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Blessing Heart Thinking

I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.

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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.

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