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As 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.

Yasmin Mogahed

As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Fashion God Hope Lying Men
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Grateful Pushes Wounds
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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Fashion Men Numbers
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.
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Changing Growth Hurt Life
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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Beautiful Father Sacrifice
Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Believe People Punishment
We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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Covered Creation God Mistake Planets
I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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Choices Either Greatest People Thinking True
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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Attachment Important Islamic
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Healing Patience Poison
So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
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Easier God Inspirational Outside Religious
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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Leaving Love People
Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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God Hope Imprisoned Soul
If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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Breaking Giving Heart Want
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
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Assume Believe God People Punishment
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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Beautiful Breathtakingly Feel Sadness
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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Go Heart Letting Mean
It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Greatest Love Tests
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites.
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Dark Gratitude Loss
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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Apologizing Be Biggest Forgiving Kind Virtue
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
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Pain Running Strong
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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Character Fashion Heart
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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Dirt Religion Today
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Fall Succeeds Taken Thinking
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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Competition Honor Men Need
Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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Breaks Heal Heart
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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Heart Ocean Sea Touch

As 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.

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