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.
YASMIN MOGAHEDThis life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
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There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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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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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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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you.
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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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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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But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here.
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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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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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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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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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Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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