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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Yasmin Mogahed

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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Forever Laughter Perfectly Good
When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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Creation Our Rectify Relationship
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
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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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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Gift God Worship
We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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Hurt Islamic Last Running Spend
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Caring Helping Wall
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness
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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Choice Gives Hands Multiple Simple
We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Blessings False Give God Heart
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
Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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Care Everything People Worry
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
That 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.
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Data Herat Later Look Prayer
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
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

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