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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.

Yasmin Mogahed

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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Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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Cleaning Dhikr Heart
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
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
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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Heart Speak Tongue
They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately.
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Pain Running Strong
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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Dark Gratitude Loss
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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Attempts Mold Problem Surgery
Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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Design Perfect Should
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
Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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Home Islamic Looks
In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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Fake People Hypocrites Islamic
When you suffer, don’t speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don’t stop.
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God Inspirational Inspiring Stop
There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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Differences Listening Silence
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
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

You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.

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