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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

Yasmin Mogahed

My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.
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Forever Laughter Perfectly Good
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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Beautiful Heart Pain
We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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Covered Creation God Mistake Planets
So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na’im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail.
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Blessing Heart Thinking
The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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Bring Close Every Hardship
If you think you’re too far from Allah to return, and your ‘past’ continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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Past Thinking Two
Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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Home Islamic Looks
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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Reflection Self Ugliness
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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Blessings False Give God Heart
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness
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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Heart Ocean Sea Touch
Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.
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Dunya Islamic Perfect
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Fall Sometimes Transformation
I think we all carry within us different versions of ourselves. Our true, greatest, most honest versions of ourselves can either be developed and nourished, or it can remain dead from neglect.
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Choices Either Greatest People Thinking True
Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah.
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Fall Succeeds Taken Thinking

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