Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.
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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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We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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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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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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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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Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
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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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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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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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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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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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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
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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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When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
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Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.