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.
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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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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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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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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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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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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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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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