Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.
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Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?
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Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
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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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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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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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Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
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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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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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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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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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Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.
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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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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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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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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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Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
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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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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.