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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.

Yasmin Mogahed

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
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
The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
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
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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Beautiful Father Sacrifice
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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Attachment Important Islamic
Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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Attached Moments Pass
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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Each Journey Random Unique
We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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Covered Creation God Mistake Planets
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Mirages Traveler Water
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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Answers Earth Kings
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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Around Believe Everything Thing
When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
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Chance Generously Love Messing
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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Dunya Islamic Reality
Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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Born Hate Motivated
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

There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.

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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won’t enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external ‘freedom’ in the world won’t liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you’ll know Freedom.

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