Top 160 Yasmin Mogahed Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

52. “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.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

53. “Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

54. “If you’re having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

56. “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

57. “Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

58. “When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who’ve hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

60. “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

61. “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

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

63. “Your heart is sacred land. Don’t let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

64. “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

65. “Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

69. “Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

70. “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

71. “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.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

72. “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.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

74. “You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

76. “Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

77. “Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

79. “We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?””

— Yasmin Mogahed

80. “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

81. “Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

83. “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.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

84. “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

85. “Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn’t open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

86. “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.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

87. “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

88. “My sisters, let’s tell ‘fashion’ we love Allah more!”

— Yasmin Mogahed

89. “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

90. “Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

91. “He chose better for me, He always chooses better.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

92. “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

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

94. “Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

95. “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

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— Yasmin Mogahed

100. “Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.”

— Yasmin Mogahed