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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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Heart Speak Tongue
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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Fall Hurt Mean Resilence
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Character Fashion Heart
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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God Hope Men Problem Thinking
When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
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Chance Generously Love Messing
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Mirages Traveler Water
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.
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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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Past Thinking Two
My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
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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Asking Everything Listening Question Sign Speak
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness
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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Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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Cleaning Healing Hurt Pain
Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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Lonely Perfect Sometimes
We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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People Truthfulness Two

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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