Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others. Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes by Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes From Yasmin Mogahed 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. Yasmin Mogahed fashionmenlying 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. Yasmin Mogahed essentialspurposebelieve 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. Yasmin Mogahed islamichearttrying 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 generosityalsgiving In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships). Yasmin Mogahed islamicfake-peoplehypocrite Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. Yasmin Mogahed emptysometimespeople My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. Yasmin Mogahed nafsscreamdesire Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God. Yasmin Mogahed kneesperfectthinking 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. Yasmin Mogahed knowingstrugglemean 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 forgivingsindeeds Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it. Yasmin Mogahed islamichomelooks 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 searealitylooks My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more! Yasmin Mogahed love-allahfashionmy-sister If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun. Yasmin Mogahed oceanlightdarkness Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God. Yasmin Mogahed arroganceignoranceworld Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self. Yasmin Mogahed uglinessreflectionself 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 helpingpeoplefirsts 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. Yasmin Mogahed islamicforeverpeople Seek those who help you hear your own heart. Yasmin Mogahed hearthelping To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith). Yasmin Mogahed attachmentheartmean
