Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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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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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
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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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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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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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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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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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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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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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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.
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Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.
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Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
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As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.