The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIn dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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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.
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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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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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Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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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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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work.
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The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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