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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.

Yasmin Mogahed

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Drawn Knows Looks Want
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
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
Don’t think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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Each Journey Random Unique
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
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
We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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People Truthfulness Two
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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God Hands Heart Hope People
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Expectations Recipes Unhappiness
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
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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Changing Growth Hurt Life
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
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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Fall Hurt Mean Resilence
Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Care Heart People
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
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
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
The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
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Attempts Mold Problem Surgery
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
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
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
When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
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Chance Generously Love Messing
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
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
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn’t come from the people. It comes from God.
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Love People Running Want
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
It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Greatest Love Tests

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