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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.

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
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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Heart Leaving Sky
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
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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Bigger Hard Hired Picture replace
When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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Acceptance Healing Hurt
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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Beautiful Change Laughter
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
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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Deeds Forgiving God Hope Sin
Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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God Love People Sake
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
In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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Fake People Hypocrites Islamic
You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
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Direction Heart One Running
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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Dunya Islamic Reality
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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People Speak Understand Without
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

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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