Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define 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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What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
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You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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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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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.
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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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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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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.
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Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.
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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.
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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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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!
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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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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is
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People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.
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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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Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?
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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.