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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDWhen your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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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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This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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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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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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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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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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