The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
YASMIN MOGAHEDAs Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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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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I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes.
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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:
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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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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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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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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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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