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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

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.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Love People Running Want
Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Drawn Knows Looks Want
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
YASMIN MOGAHED

Ocean Prayer Remembrance
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
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
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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Home Islamic Land
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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Forever Laughter Perfectly Good
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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Fall Hurt Mean Resilence
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
So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah.
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Easier God Inspirational Outside Religious
When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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Depends People Trouble
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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Beautiful Heart Pain
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
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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Fashion Men Numbers
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
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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Bad Laughter Life Perfectly
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah.
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Go Heart Letting Mean
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Fall Succeeds Taken Thinking
Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.
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Care Everything People Worry
I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most:
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Assume Believe God People Punishment
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.
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Finding Getting Happiness Want World
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
Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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Levels Strength Test
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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Heart Silence Speak Understand
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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Desire Louder Scream
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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Heart Light Pain

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