Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThe body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief:
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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.
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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream
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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.
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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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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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When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us.
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Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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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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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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