Top 160 Yasmin Mogahed Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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

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

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104. “The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.”

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105. “The mind replays what the heart can’t delete.”

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106. “When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.”

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107. “Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!”

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108. “Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you’re not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.”

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109. “When you’re faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?”

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110. “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.”

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111. “Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals.”

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112. “The one who knows himself isn’t deceived by either praise or criticism.”

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113. “Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you.”

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114. “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.”

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

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116. “When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.”

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117. “Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You’re not in charge.”

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

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119. “Love isn’t supposed to torment you. If it does, there’s probably something wrong.”

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120. “Seek those who help you hear your own heart.”

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121. “Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.”

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122. “Be wholehearted.”

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123. “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.”

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124. “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.”

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125. “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.”

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

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

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128. “Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.”

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129. “Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.”

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130. “You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.”

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131. “Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “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?”

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134. “Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.”

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

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136. “Take care of the hearts you’ve been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.”

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137. “Growth never comes without pain and success is only a product of struggle.”

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138. “O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world.”

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139. “The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them.”

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140. “The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the source of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is.”

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141. “He separated you from what you love, to teach you about the nature of this life. Then He returned to you what you love, to teach you about the nature of the next.”

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142. “The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.”

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143. “True freedom only comes when I let go of the fear of anything and anyone other than God.”

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144. “Zuhud bukan berarti kamu tidak boleh memiliki sesuatu, melainkan tidak ada sesuatupun yang boleh memilikimu.”

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145. “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.”

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146. “But, once in a while, people enter your life that you love – not for what they give you – but for what they are. The beauty you see in them is a reflection of the Creator, so you love them. Now suddenly it isn’t about what you’re getting, but rather what you can give. This is unselfish love.”

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147. “The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away.”

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148. “We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”

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149. “Through my attachments, I was dependent on my relationships to fulfill my needs. I allowed those relationships to define my happiness or my sadness, my fulfillment or my emptiness, my security, and even my self-worth. And so, like the vase placed where it will inevitably fall, through those dependencies I set myself up for disappointment. I set myself up to be broken.”

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150. “That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for us. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that we need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns us to remove our hand from the fire, emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal change.”

— Yasmin Mogahed