Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
YASMIN MOGAHEDAs a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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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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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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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.
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The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
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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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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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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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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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Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.
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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.
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