Yasmin Mogahed
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?Collection: Beautiful
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healingCollection: Healing
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourselfCollection: Wall
The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.Collection: Ocean
Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.Collection: Love Is
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.Collection: Running
There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Giving
I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.Collection: Couple
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.Collection: Forgiving
When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.Collection: Sight
Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.Collection: Islamic
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Hurt
When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.Collection: Inspirational
Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.Collection: Fall
Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.Collection: Giving
Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.Collection: Prayer
We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.Collection: Two
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.Collection: Inspirational
So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah. Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.Collection: Inspirational
The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.Collection: Missing
Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.Collection: Grateful
Don't get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.Collection: Moments
Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.Collection: Heart
Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.Collection: Inspirational
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.Collection: Sadness
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.Collection: Mistake
If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.Collection: Expectations
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.Collection: Prayer
Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.Collection: Heart
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.Collection: Differences
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!Collection: Life
Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.Collection: Heart
The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.Collection: Criticism
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.Collection: People
Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.Collection: Foolish
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.Collection: Inspirational Love
Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Lonely
To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.Collection: Hurt
Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.Collection: Heart
Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Beautiful
Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.Collection: Sometimes