Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
YASMIN MOGAHEDWhen 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.
More Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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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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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you’re furnishing it.
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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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Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him.
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you
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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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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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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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The people will come and go. Sometimes they’ll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.
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