Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
YASMIN MOGAHEDLove people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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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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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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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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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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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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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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On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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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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