Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
YASMIN MOGAHEDHawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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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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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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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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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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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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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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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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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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