black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

Yasmin Mogahed

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Chains Go Letting World
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Heart Speak Tongue
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Looking Magazines Righteousness Something
But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Dark Heart Ocean Remember
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Heart Silence Speak Understand
If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
YASMIN MOGAHED

Alarms Play Wake Work
I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Changing Growth Hurt Life
My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Bad Laughter Life Perfectly
You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Dirt Religion Today
If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!
YASMIN MOGAHED

Encouraging Heartbreak Past
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
Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Breaks Heal Heart
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Blessing Heart Thinking
When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Better Inability Mind Sight
Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Attached Moments Pass
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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Direction Heart One Running

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes