Yasmin Mogahed - Quotes

[xAllahKnowsBestx]

"There will come a day when we would give up everything we ever loved in this life, everything that preoccupied our hearts and minds, every mirage we ran after, just to have that conversation with Allah. But on that Day, there will be some from whom Allah (swt) will turn away… and forget, as they had once forgotten Him."

 

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Allah's Mercy

"Sometimes we lose hope in turning to God and asking for His help because we feel like we have done too much wrong. And yet think of a child who has just angered his mother and immediately after trips and falls on the stairs. Even if that child had just angered his mother to tears, the moment he falls and cries for help, she runs to him. This is human mercy. And God is infinitely more merciful than a mother is to her child. So, do you think--no matter what you've done--when you're falling and cry out to the *most* merciful...He wouldn't come save you?"

 

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Ramadan

"But like the sun that rises at the end of the night, our dawn has come. 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. He has given us this blessed month to fill our emptiness, cure our loneliness, and end our soul’s poverty. He has sent us the dawn that we might find from darkness – light.

Allah says, “He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers” (Qur’an, 33:43)."

 

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This Dunya

"This worldly life, the dunya, is just like the ocean. And our hearts are the ships. We can use the ocean for our needs and as a means to get to our final destination. But the ocean is only that: a means. It is a means for seeking food of the sea. It is a means of travel. It is a means of seeking a higher purpose. But it is something which we only pass through, but never think to remain in. Imagine what would happen if the ocean became our end – rather than just a means.

Eventually we would drown."

 

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Repentance

"The one who despairs because of a sin, has forgotten that the sin that makes you repent, and be humble and broken in front of Allah, is better than the 'good deed' that makes you arrogant."

 

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Slavery

"You see, the moment you or I allow anything, other than our Creator, to define our success, our failure, our happiness, or our worth, we have entered into a silent, but destructive form of slavery."

 

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The worldly life

If you want something, let it go. The more you chase anything other than Him, the more it escapes you.

 

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But how foolish is the one who exchanges air for a necklace? He is the one who says, “Give me the necklace, and then you can take away my air after that. Suffocate me, but just make sure I’m wearing the necklace when I die.” And the irony of it all is that it is the necklace itself that suffocates us. It is our own objects of attachment—the things we love more than God— that kill us.

 

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"People fall into all types of sin, but there is one sin all these people have in common. There is one common denominator for every individual who lives a life full of sin. Whether that person was once on the straight path and fell, or whether that person was never on that path at all, one thing is for sure. That person had to first abandon, minimize, put aside, or ignore their salah (prayer) before they were able to fall."

May Allaah keep us steadfast on the deen.

 

[xAllahKnowsBestx]

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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Beware of what you let enter your heart. There'll come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

 

[Umm Abdullah]

Barak'Allahu feeki ukhtii aziiza, but who is Yasmin Mogahed? I have never heard of her subhanAllah

 

[xAllahKnowsBestx]

Barak'Allahu feeki ukhtii aziiza, but who is Yasmin Mogahed? I have never heard of her subhanAllah

Sis, she's a Muslim author/speaker/writer. She does a lot of Islamic talks at Islamic conventions in the US. This is her blog: http://www.yasminmogahed.com/ Sister Yasmin just published a new book - "Reclaim Your Heart" - by the way..