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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThat data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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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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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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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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In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease.
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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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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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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.
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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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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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