Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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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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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
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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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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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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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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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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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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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Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
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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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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
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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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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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Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
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Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.