Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThe problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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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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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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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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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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On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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I know you feel worn and tired. I know you’re tired of failing. Rest, but don’t stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you’re strong, but because He’s your strength.
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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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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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Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
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They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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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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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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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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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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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
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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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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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