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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?

Yasmin Mogahed

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
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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Home Islamic Looks
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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Cleaning Healing Hurt Pain
We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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People Truthfulness Two
Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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Crave Hawa Miserable Satisfied
The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
YASMIN MOGAHED

Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
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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Blessing Heart Thinking
Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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Heart Helping
You’ve been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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Dirt Religion Today
Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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Lonely Perfect Sometimes
We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak’at.
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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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Leaving Love People
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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Fashion God Hope Lying Men
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness
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 commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?

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The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn’t his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?

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