Quotes About Life Yasmin Mogahed

#1. 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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#2. This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

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#3. Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

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#4. If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

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#5. Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

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#6. 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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#7. Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

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#8. T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees ... the perfect position to seek God.

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#14. This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar

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#15. Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.

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#16. Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
Then don't repeat them.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. We should not weep for the arriving soul - It isn't dead. We should weep instead for the one whose body is alive, but whose soul is dead because of its alienation from that which gives it life: God.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

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#29. 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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#30. Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.

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#31. 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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