Yasmin Mogahed
Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.Collection: Real
Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Running
Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Pain
Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heartCollection: Heart
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!Collection: Past
Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.Collection: Home
My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.Collection: Desire
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.Collection: Broken
When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.Collection: People
Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.Collection: Loss
Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.Collection: Destiny
Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.Collection: Hurt
Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.Collection: Heart
Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifestCollection: Strenght
Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Reality
The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.Collection: Heart
This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbarCollection: Pain
Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from youCollection: Sensitivity
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness.Collection: Fall
Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.Collection: Inspirational Life
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Beautiful
My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.Collection: Laughter
You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.Collection: Fear
To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of lifeCollection: Inspirational
Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define youCollection: Self
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.Collection: Ocean
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Islamic
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah. This means whatever the outcome of the limbs' striving, the heart will be completely satisfied, knowing that it is the flawless decision of Allah. But in order to reach this level, one must hold on to hope, strive with the limbs, and let go with the heart.Collection: Letting Go
Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.Collection: Islamic
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Being Thankful
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.Collection: Patience
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.Collection: Running
The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.Collection: Water
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.Collection: Death