Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
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Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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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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Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?
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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
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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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My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.
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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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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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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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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.
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Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.
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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is
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So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.
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If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
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With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.