We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
YASMIN MOGAHEDTell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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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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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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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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