Yasmin Mogahed famous quotes

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Pain #Inspire #Suffering

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!
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Stars #Moon #Perfection

Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Hurt #Grateful #Taught

Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sleep #Simple #People

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Prayer #Ocean #Remembrance

I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Believe #Punishment #People

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

#Hate #Angel #Perfect

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Pain #Loss #Stories

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Broken #Solitude

But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Ocean #Heart #Dark

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Prayer #Eye #Heart

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sight #Mind #Looks

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

#Worry #Effort #Direct

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Giving #Forever

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Rose #Passing Away #World

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Lonely #Perfect #Sometimes

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Grateful #Be Grateful #Wounds

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

#Love Is #Doe #Torment

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...
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#People #Speak #Without You

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Messages #Speak

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?
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Father #Son

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

#Heart #Land #Sacred

Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Men #Thinking #Problem

When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Creation #Our Relationship #Rectify

Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Silence #Looks

I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Fashion #Heart #Character

When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Running #Needs #Creation

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sadness #Loss #Passing Away

Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Pain #Heart #Light

This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Pain #Heart #Islam

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Giving

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Kings #Answers #Earth

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Desire #Want #Neglect

When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#People #Needs #Emptiness

We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Gratitude #Loss #Dark

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Forgiving #Be Kind #Apologizing

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Heart #Past

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

#Heart #Giving

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Hurt #Prayer #Heart

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Religious #Heart #Mean

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Silence

What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll have what you love forever.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Love You #Giving #Forever

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Tongue #Speak

Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heal

You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Trials #Shelter #Scared

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Mistake #Creation #Planets

Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Islamic #Perfect #Dunya

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Dark #Tests #Holding On

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Pain #Real #Islamic

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sea #Knowing #Water

Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Destiny #Trying #Stop Trying

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Islam #Doe

We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to 'speak' to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always 'speaking'. The question is whether we are listening.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Listening #Asking #Speak

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Strong #Islamic #Combination

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

#Sometimes #Gift From God

Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Giving #Pay #Able

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Running #Strong #Pain

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Couple #Talking #Imperfection

This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Hands #Keys

The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Love You #Heart #People

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Special #Stills

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Storm #Shelter #This Life

How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Love You #Heart

There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. 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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Pain #Laughter

Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Sky #Leaving

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

#Looks #Want

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Fall #Humility #Greatness

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Islamic #Dying #Earth

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Dhikr #Cleaning

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Heart #Despair

Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Storm #Earth

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Islamic #Today #Dirt

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#People #Arrogance #Would Be

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

#Love Is #People #Leaving

Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Strenght #Levels #Tests

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Two #People #Truthfulness

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Ocean #Heart #Sea

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Fashion #Men #Numbers

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Love Is #Self #Attachment

I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Heart #Way #Shields

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Giving #Heaven #Earth

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Criticism #Praise #Deceived

It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Tests

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

#Worship #Gift From God

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

#Loss #Firsts

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

#Moments #That Moment #Okay

On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Prayer #Giving Up #Islamic

Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Sensitivity

Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Giving Up #Lying #Generosity

He chose better for me, He always chooses better
-- Yasmin Mogahed

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Dream #Believe #World

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Broken #Hardship #Cures

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Couple #Lost

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Beautiful #Pain #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!
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Past #Thinking #Two

Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Foolish #Loan

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Real #Opposites #Drug

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.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Islamic #Passing Away #World

Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Wall #Caring #Helping

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Prayer #Inspiration #Focus