We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.
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 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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If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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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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Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.
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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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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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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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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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You keep only what you give…to Him.
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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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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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