Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

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.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

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.

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

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

I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

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.

Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.

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.

People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.

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

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.

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

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.

If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

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.

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

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

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.

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

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

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.

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.

Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

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

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

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.

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

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.

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

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

In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.

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.

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

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

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.

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.