Top 209 Quotes & Sayings by Yasmin Mogahed - Page 4

What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an agonizing death. We willingly starve and suffocate our hearts by turning away form the remembrance of God. And then we poison our hearts through the bad company we keep, the garbage that goes into our eyes and ears, and emanates from our tongue... And then we wonder why our heart feels dead.

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.

My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave.

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said: 'Truly, there is a Heaven in this world, [and] whoever does not enter it, will not enter the Heaven of the next world.' And in that heaven, complete peace is not something of a moment. It is a state, eternal.

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.

Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity.

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

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

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

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

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.

T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

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.