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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDSo often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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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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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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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.
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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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When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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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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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 fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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