Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
-
You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
-
Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
-
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.
-
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
-
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.
-
Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
-
Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
-
You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.
-
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
-
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.
-
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!
-
The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
-
Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is
-
Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
-
Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
-
Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
-
The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.
-
If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
-
I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.