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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.

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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
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites.
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Dark Gratitude Loss
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
Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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Levels Strength Test
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
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
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
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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Choice Gives Hands Multiple Simple
We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”
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Hurt Islamic Last Running Spend
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Faith Inspirational Spiritual
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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Death Life Religious
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.
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Fashion Men Numbers
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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Arrogance Ignorance World
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
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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Body Needs Soul
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more.
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Beautiful Father Sacrifice
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Combination Islamic Strong
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
If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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Alarms Play Wake Work
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth.
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Fashion God Hope Lying Men
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.
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Heart Light Pain
There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.
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Differences Listening Silence
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
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Healing Patience Poison
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
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
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

Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it’s mark on our heart’s sky.

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