If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
YASMIN MOGAHEDBlessings 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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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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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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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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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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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
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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.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
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Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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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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We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak’at.
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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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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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