You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.
YASMIN MOGAHEDSome hearts understand each other, even in silence.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease.
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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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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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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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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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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.
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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Our 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.
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