Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
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Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
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We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.
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Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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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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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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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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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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Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart
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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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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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To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.
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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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What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll have what you love forever.
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My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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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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Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.
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We will be asked, "what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?"
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There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.
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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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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
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We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
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If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!
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Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
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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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Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.
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