Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.
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My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!
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When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?
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Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
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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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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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Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
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When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
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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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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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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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Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.
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The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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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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You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness
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I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.
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This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
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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.