Firsts Quotes by Yasmin Mogahed

11 Firsts quotes by Yasmin Mogahed

Mogahed often turns the inner landscape into a source of calm insight. These eleven short reflections on first experiences provide a gentle reminder that new starts can be both unsettling and uplifting.

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Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing…

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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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Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered…

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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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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.

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I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains…

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When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even…

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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the…

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To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when…

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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of…

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What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then…

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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

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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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Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no…

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“Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if you seek it through yourself.”

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Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

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You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You…

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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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“You will never give up a thing for the sake of Allah (swt), but that Allah will replace it for you with something that…

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Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during…

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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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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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But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still…

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