Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.
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My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!
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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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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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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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If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
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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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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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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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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
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Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
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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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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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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.
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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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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
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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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Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.