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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

Yasmin Mogahed

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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Home Islamic Land
There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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Differences Listening Silence
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Drawn Knows Looks Want
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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Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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Life Love Loyalty Real
The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is #‎ eternal .
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Body Neglect Soul
We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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Hurt Islamic Last Running Spend
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
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Apologizing Be Biggest Forgiving Kind Virtue
My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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Home Loneliness People
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
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.
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Love People Running Want
The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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Inspirational Life Love Sometimes
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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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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Gift God Worship
Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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Attachment Love Self

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