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

Yasmin Mogahed

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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Account Generosity Giving Withhold
When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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Creation Our Rectify Relationship
The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
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Distraction Excruciating Moment Victim
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.
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People Speak Understand Without
Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.
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Beautiful Breathtakingly Feel Sadness
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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Beautiful Commandant God Ourselves
When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
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Bigger Hard Hired Picture replace
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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Happening Islamic Real Something Stills
Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.
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Design Perfect Should
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.
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Destiny Steers Trying
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
Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.
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God Mind Personal Relationship Throughout
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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Asking Everything Listening Question Sign Speak
Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Care Heart People
As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
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Answers Earth Kings
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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Doorstep Give Realize Sky
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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Beautiful Change Laughter
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Grateful Pushes Wounds
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Ocean Prayer Remembrance
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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God Hope Men Problem Thinking
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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Breaking Heart Islam
When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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Depends People Trouble
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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Dunya Islamic Reality
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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Hands Healing Heart
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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Focus Good Mean Perfectly Shift
We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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Eye Mean Suffering
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

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