Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. 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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Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
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You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
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You keep only what you give...to Him.
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Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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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. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right.
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If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.
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You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT
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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.
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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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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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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
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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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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
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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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If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.