Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
YASMIN MOGAHEDWe 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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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.
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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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Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
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Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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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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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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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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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak’at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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