Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.
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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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Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
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Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
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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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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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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
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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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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
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Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
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My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.
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Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
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Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.
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Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.