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. Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes by Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes From Yasmin Mogahed 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. Yasmin Mogahed inspirational-love special heart You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it? Yasmin Mogahed god inspirational love If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time. Yasmin Mogahed love-life loyalty real To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey. Yasmin Mogahed grateful unique hurt Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don't ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test. Yasmin Mogahed blessing two people So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah. Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend. Yasmin Mogahed religious god inspirational Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to. Yasmin Mogahed knows want looks Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness. Yasmin Mogahed greatness humility fall 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 planets creation mistake 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 trust god life Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life. Yasmin Mogahed sacred land heart This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change. Yasmin Mogahed perfectly-good focus mean Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart. Yasmin Mogahed storm hardship heart The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you. Yasmin Mogahed apologizing be-kind forgiving We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same. Yasmin Mogahed truthfulness two people 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 acceptance hurt healing 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. Yasmin Mogahed without-you speak people Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect. Yasmin Mogahed design should perfect Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. Yasmin Mogahed islamic hope inspirational When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life. Yasmin Mogahed heart beautiful past
