Top 100 Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
#1. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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#2. Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
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#3. Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
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#4. Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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#5. No one will be with you forever in this life. The door will always be swinging open and closed. Love the people who enter. Let go of the people who leave.
Don't hang on.
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#6. What kind of Muslim are you? The question seems odd, but for those who seek to divide and conquer Islam, the answer has become increasingly important. Even more disturbing are the labels we assign ourselves.
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#7. Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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#8. 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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#9. Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
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#10. 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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#11. When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?
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#12. Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
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#13. 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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#15. There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
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#16. When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
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#17. You keep running after the love of the people, but you'll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?
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#18. Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
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#19. He knows that behind each false door is a drop. And if we enter it, we will fall. In His mercy, He keeps those false doors closed.
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#20. Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
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#21. She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world.
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#22. Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
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#23. If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!
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#24. Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.
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#25. If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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#26. He separated you from what you love, to teach you about the nature of this life. Then He returned to you what you love, to teach you about the nature of the next.
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#27. Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
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#28. In His infinite mercy, Allah has
sent the light of Ramadan to erase the night. He has sent the month of the Qur'an so that He might
elevate us and bring us from our isolation to His nearness.
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#29. To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life
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#30. Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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#31. Keep going. You're almost there and remember, the sun is most beautiful as it's going away.
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#32. When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.
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#33. When you love something so much, protect what you love, and the bond between you, by making the love about Allah.
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#34. The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.
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#35. There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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#36. 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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#37. If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.
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#38. In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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#39. But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love - not for what they give you - but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. Now suddenly it isn't about what you're getting, but rather what you can give. This is unselfish love.
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#42. This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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#43. Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it
He doesn't harden it.
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#44. We hold on so tightly, because we're terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.
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#45. Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
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#46. We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
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#47. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:
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#48. The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.
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#49. Single moment in a string of infinite moments ... and that they too shall pass.
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#50. 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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#51. Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
Then don't repeat them.
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#52. The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
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#56. Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.
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#57. If given a choice between stoic justice and compassion, I choose compassion. And if given a choice between worldly leadership and heaven at my feet - I choose heaven.
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#58. Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.
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#59. At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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#60. Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.
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#61. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
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#62. However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edges of tables.
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#63. You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him.
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#64. 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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#65. Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the illusion will crumble and you'll be left with the only Reality: Him.
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#66. To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
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#67. 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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#68. Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to 'be strong'. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.
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#69. Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.
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#70. Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
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#71. Today, we're no longer just 'Muslim'. We're 'progressives', 'Islamists', 'traditionalists', 'salafis', 'indigenous', and 'immigrants'. And each group has become so alienated from the other, that we've almost forgotten that we share a common creed.
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#72. When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It's for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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#73. The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize ... It was only a dream
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#74. My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.
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#75. You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.
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#76. Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.
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#77. Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
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#78. Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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#79. The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
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#80. Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.
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#81. Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
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#82. Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
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#83. Allah loves His creation. That's why He rewards so greatly for serving them.
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#84. Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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#85. Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
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#86. Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
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#87. Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
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#89. To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).
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#90. It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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#91. Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
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#92. If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
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#93. The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).
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#94. Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
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#95. We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.
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#96. 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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#97. Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it's understood.
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#98. Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.
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#99. Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God. Reliant on his own means, he forgets that the means, his own soul, and everything else in existence are His creation.
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#100. Some people should not be allowed to see beyond your surface. Seeing your vulnerability is a privilege, not meant for everyone.
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