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So 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.

Yasmin Mogahed

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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Competition Honor Men Need
This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Inner Shelter Storm
Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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Each Journey Random Unique
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

People Speak Understand Without
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!
YASMIN MOGAHED

Past Thinking Two
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Destiny Steers Trying
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
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
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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Direction Heart One Running
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Caring Helping Wall
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
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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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Heart Silence Speak Understand
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Care Everything People Worry
This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Focus Good Mean Perfectly Shift
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Reflection Self Ugliness

So 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.

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So 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.

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