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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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 body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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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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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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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.
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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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Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.
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Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
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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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Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
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People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart.
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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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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.
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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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What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
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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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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
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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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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
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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.