I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
YASMIN MOGAHEDLeaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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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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When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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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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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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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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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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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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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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