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Inspirational Quotes by Yasmin Mogahed

50 Inspirational quotes by Yasmin Mogahed

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Mogahed reminds us that everything carries meaning if we pay attention. She warns to guard the heart like sacred land and says perfection isn’t needed because God isn’t an angel. She urges reliance on God, not on self or others, and lets love heal.

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Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.

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Seek those who help you hear your own heart.

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Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

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My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!

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Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.

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

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

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You keep only what you give...to Him.

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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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I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows…

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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…

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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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Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

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Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.

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People think it's the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check…

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Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.

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Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew…

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You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing.…

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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,…

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You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be…

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If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you.…

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We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around…

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The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not.…

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Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego.…

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So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah…

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The secret to letting go is the realization that the object of attachment (sadness, fear, wealth, people) was never a part of…

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Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.

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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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You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.

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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.

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Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.

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He chose better for me, He always chooses better

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Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

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Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.

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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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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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In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

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When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and…

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If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.

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Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

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