Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another.
YASMIN MOGAHEDIf you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you.
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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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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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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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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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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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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.
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Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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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 body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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I tell you to keep going, not because it’s easy. Not because it doesn’t hurt. I tell you to keep going because there’s no other way. To stop is to die.
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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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Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
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