Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

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

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

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

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

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.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.

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

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

Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

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

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

Take care of the hearts of the people, and Allāh will take care of your heart

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.

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

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

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.

Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.

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

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.

Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.

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

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

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

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

Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive.

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

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

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.

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?

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

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

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

Seek those who help you hear your own heart.

Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.

Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.

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

To me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.

Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.

Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God. Reliant on his own means, he forgets that the means, his own soul, and everything else in existence are His creation.

The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.

Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

The mind replays what the heart can't delete.