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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Yasmin Mogahed

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
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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Hands Healing Heart
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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People Speak Understand Without
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
Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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Giving Knows Nothing
Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
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Account Generosity Giving Withhold
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
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Fall Sometimes Transformation
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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Beautiful Heart Pain
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Faith Inspirational Spiritual
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
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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Empty People Sometimes
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
The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Bring Close Every Hardship
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

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

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