Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
YASMIN MOGAHEDOur first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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.
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When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
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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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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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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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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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Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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