Top 100 Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
#1. 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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#2. The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal .
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#3. 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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#4. When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
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#5. 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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#6. Keep going. You're almost there and remember, the sun is most beautiful as it's going away.
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#7. 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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#8. Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.
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#9. Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
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#14. 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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#15. Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.
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#16. Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.
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#17. There's a powerful tool that allows you to distinguish between what's Real and what's just a phase.
It's: Time.
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#18. 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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#19. If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!
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#20. You can't run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn't Him you're running towards.
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#21. When you fall in love with a work of art, you'd die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
And I'm dying to meet the artist.
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#22. When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
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#28. You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.
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#29. 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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#30. Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
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#31. The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.
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#32. 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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#33. There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
Let go. And you'll know Freedom.
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#34. The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.
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#35. 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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#36. Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
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#37. 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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#38. Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.
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#39. The nature of the dunya as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments.
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#40. 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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#43. Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.
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#44. 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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#45. In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
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#46. Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.
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#50. There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is
a gift from God to you.
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#54. Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
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#63. If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).
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#67. 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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#68. Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
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#69. 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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#70. Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
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#75. Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
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#76. Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
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#77. If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.
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#78. When you have friends, don't expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don't expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you're an activist, don't put your hope in the results. When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on Allah.
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#79. 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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#80. When I need God most, He comes
to me the fastest and closest. When
I need the creation most, they run
from me the fastest and farthest.
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#81. There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.
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#82. God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I'm not here to please men with my body; I'm here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman's body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.
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#83. 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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#84. She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world.
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#85. Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
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#86. 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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#87. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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#88. Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
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#89. You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
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#90. 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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#91. I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this.
Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.
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#92. When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
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#93. 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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#94. If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.
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#95. I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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#97. Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
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#98. As a result, we create our own camps, attend only our own gatherings and conferences; soon enough, we're talking only to those who agree with us. Dialogue within the ummah disappears, our differences become only more polarized and our views become more extreme.
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#99. 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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#100. Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.
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