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 MOGAHEDBeing both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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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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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
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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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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease.
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My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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