Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
-
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
-
Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
-
Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
-
Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.
-
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.
-
Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
-
I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.
-
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.'
-
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
-
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
-
I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this.
-
Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.
-
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
-
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
-
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
-
The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
-
Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
-
Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
-
There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.
-
Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
-
Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
-
We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.
-
Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
-
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!