Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.
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Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
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Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
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Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
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Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
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To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
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Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.
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And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said: 'Truly, there is a Heaven in this world, [and] whoever does not enter it, will not enter the Heaven of the next world.'
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Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.
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Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
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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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Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
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The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
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This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner:
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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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This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.
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Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.