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! Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes by Yasmin Mogahed More Quotes From Yasmin Mogahed 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. Yasmin Mogahed couple lost Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect. Yasmin Mogahed gift-from-god sometimes 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 despair heart beautiful Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts. Yasmin Mogahed spiritual faith inspirational Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate. Yasmin Mogahed pain light heart I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. Yasmin Mogahed fashion heart character For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die. Yasmin Mogahed pain hurt healing Some hearts understand each other, even in silence. Yasmin Mogahed silence-speaks silence heart The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life. Yasmin Mogahed inspirational love life You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay. Yasmin Mogahed that-moment okay moments Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you Yasmin Mogahed sensitivity 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 solitude broken heart 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. Yasmin Mogahed hardship people thinking 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 dunya islam heart Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it. Yasmin Mogahed heart advice giving Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter? Yasmin Mogahed sacrifice beautiful father 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. Yasmin Mogahed passing-away rose world Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah. This means whatever the outcome of the limbs' striving, the heart will be completely satisfied, knowing that it is the flawless decision of Allah. But in order to reach this level, one must hold on to hope, strive with the limbs, and let go with the heart. Yasmin Mogahed letting-go heart mean 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. Yasmin Mogahed falling-in-love ocean art So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT Yasmin Mogahed connections things-in-life pain
