Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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.
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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.
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God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to please men with my body; I’m here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman’s body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.
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He chose better for me, He always chooses better
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Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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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.
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Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
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To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
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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.
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When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
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The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
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Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.
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You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.
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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.
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Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.
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Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
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Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
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Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.
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The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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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.
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What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
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When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.