In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
YASMIN MOGAHEDMost 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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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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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.
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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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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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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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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This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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