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“I'm traveling now, as I have been since the day I was born, to You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“All that you love in this life is only what is a glimpse of the next.The beauty, the pleasure, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I seek refuge in You from ever seeking refuge in other than You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“People wonder what goes wrong after the wedding day. I think its when giving turns to expecting ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than Allah. We forget that the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Four things are signs of wretchedness: dryness of the eye [eyes that do not cry], hardness of the heart, putting one's hopes in dunya, ...

Sheikh Ahmad al-Ajmi

“So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“One teardrop that falls from the eye of a believer out of love and fear for Him is better than ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“What if Your blessings come through raindrops, what if Your healing comes through tears, what ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

Yasmin Mogahed

“What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life is the revealing of a greater ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Today was a day of tears. The pain reminds this heart that this is not, this is not our home. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Perhaps this trial wont end until you learn the lesson it was sent to teach you.

Yasmin Mogahed

“We usually think that ease prepares us for hardship. But I think sometimes hardship prepares us ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“It will keep hurting you, until you let go and there remains nothing in the heart but Him. Once ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Ironically, the less we chase after the approval and love of the people, the more we gain it. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“But the more I fear the people, the more I become enslaved. True freedom only comes when I let ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Riyaa is a consequence of living in the orbit of the creation. The deeper and deeper I enter ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The goal of this life is to realize the Truth of God’s greatness and my own insignificance ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The dunya (that great job, certain type of spouse, having a child, school, career, etc) is our ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one’s love for Allah. It should ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love, as Allah intended it, is not a sickness or an addiction. It is affection and mercy. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When our love for what we crave is stronger than our love for Allah, we have taken that which ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Like everything in this dunya, marriage is only a means – a means to reach Allah. So if we ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs—it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If one truly understands the Reality and the power of Allah, one will realize that it is in ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There can be no faith without tawakkul; and if there is true faith, tawakkul must always follow.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Tawakkul is standing in front of the Red Sea—as Prophet Musa did—with an army behind you, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Tawakkul is having full faith that Allah will take care of you—even when things look impossible.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Only by escaping the false dependencies, letting go of our fleeting attachments, and holding on ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Know for a fact that He knows—and He is the ONLY one who really knows—exactly what you're ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“With my veil I put my faith on display – rather than my beauty. My value as a human is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“So I am honored. But it is not by my relationship to men. My value as a woman is not measured ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Growing up, you read me the Ugly Duckling. And for years I believed that was me. For so long ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Dear France: Forcing women to dress how YOU want...how are you different than the Taliban?

Yasmin Mogahed

“And so on the ultimate scale there is perfect justice. God only gives good (nearness to Him) to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“What I have or do not have in a worldly sense is only relevant in as much as it brings me ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“...winning a billion dollars may be the greatest calamity ever to happen to me if it takes me ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Given my privilege as a woman, I only degrade myself by trying to be something I’m not – ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Fifty years ago, society told us that men were superior because they left the home to work in ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“As soon as we accept that everything a man has and does is better, all that follows is a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And yet, even when God honors us with something uniquely feminine, we are too busy trying to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Allah was, and there was nothing with Him, and He is now as He was.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah’s plan is the best plan.

Yasmin Mogahed

“What we so often forget is that God has honored the woman by giving her value in relation to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There is nothing beyond God that deserves to be sought and nothing finds its conclusion with other than Him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“It sounds comical, but the truth is we put the needs of our body above the needs of our soul. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There are many people who say they don’t have time to pray at work or school, or while ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“A man came to al-Fudhail bin Bazwan and said: "There is a man backbiting you." He said: "I resent the one who has commanded him [to ...

Al-Fudhail bin Bazawan

“Whoever is prevented from disobeying Allah by upholding the Dignity of Allah in his heart, Allah will protect his dignity in the hearts ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Caring for someone is easy, but to make someone care for you is difficult, So never lose the ...

Waleed Basyouni

“He once set out to kill the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam), today he's buried next ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The most truthful line of poetry ever uttered is: "Verily, everything besides Allah is of no ...

Yasir Qadhi

“One of my favorite du'aas is the plea of Prophet Musa when he fled from Egypt: "O Allah! I am a ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Fast from this world, you will get your iftar at the time of death.

Dawood at-Ta'i

“A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Fasting is a shield; so when one of you is fasting he should not use foul or foolish talk. If ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“O son of Adam, how is your heart ever going to be softened by recitation of the Qur’an when all you read for is to reach the end of ...

al-Hasan al-Basri

“Islam is a diversity of interpretations. The problem is not the book, it is the reader. Tell me ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is ...

Tariq Ramadan

“There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Tariq Ramadan

“Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Consistency means that Islam is great, but not all Muslims are great. Consistency means that we ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Being religious puts you on the defensive in this industrialized modern world. When we are ...

Tariq Ramadan

“When you don’t know who you are, you are scared of what you are not.

Tariq Ramadan

“We do not have Theocracy in Islam, but we can have a civil state and an Islamic reference.

Tariq Ramadan

“Islam is not about following charismatic leaders and scholars. It is to follow a message. This ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Tariq Ramadan

“I don’t like what you are doing, but I won’t insult you for it. You know why? Because who ...

Tariq Ramadan

“The great majority of people that many scholars call “kuffār” do not even know what they ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Islam is not about being physically visible. As Muslims living in the West, we need to have an ...

Tariq Ramadan

“For Muslims the Qur’an stands as the Text of reference, the source and the essence of the ...

Tariq Ramadan

“We are not following scholars: they are serving the community and should not be served by the ...

Tariq Ramadan

“As Muslims, we are not worshipping Knowledge. We are using Knowledge to worship God.

Tariq Ramadan

“Female excision, forced marriages, honour crimes, for instance, are not Islamic even though ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Listen to the voices that challenge you to improve yourself. Be among the people who are ...

Tariq Ramadan

“If you cry, if you smile, remember: the Heart is the noble people’s home. It is where they ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Contemporary scientific discoveries (the neurosciences and neurobiology) confirm that there are ...

Tariq Ramadan

“There is no love based on Piety that does not arouse the jealousy of those who do not understand it.

Tariq Ramadan

“What can bring you closer to God can also make you go astray.

Tariq Ramadan

“You are humble when you always question your humility.

Tariq Ramadan

“When I pretend to be strong, no one sees my hidden tears except Allah. When I’m sad and need ...

Tariq Ramadan

“The sign of the One’s Presence at the time of a person’s death lies not in the occurrence ...

Tariq Ramadan

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