Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
YASMIN MOGAHEDDo your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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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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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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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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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
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So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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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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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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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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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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