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“Some of the Salaf (righteous predecessors) said: The bounties of Allah have come to us in numbers we can't count, even though we disobey [Allah] often, and we don't know which one to thank Allah for: the beautiful things He sends, or the ugly things [that we do] that He hides.

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“I borrowed a pen in Ash-Sham [The Levant]. When I came back to Marwu [Merv in Turkmenistan] I saw that I still had it, so I went back to return it.

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

“Sins are wounds, and maybe a wound that could lead to death, and a servant is not afflicted with a punishment greater than a hard hard, and the farthest hearts from Allah are hard hearts.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“I ask Allah for steadfastness on the deen until death (those who say our Lord is Allah and then are steadfast); those who say "Our Lord is Allah" are many, but those who are steadfast are few.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“The human soul will not leave the dunya except with three regrets: that he didn't satiate himself with enjoyment of what he had gathered (of wealth), that he didn't receive the things he hoped for, and that he didn't prepare well for what he has come upon [i.e. the Hereafter].

al-Hasan al-Basri

“Abdullah ibn Masud used to say: When we missed a brother we would go to him, if he was ill we would visit him to console him, if he was busy we would help him in his work, and if he was otherwise it would just be a visit.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Whoever smiles at his brother's committing of a sin has betrayed him.

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad (Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz)

“My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Of the signs of the wretchedness and misery of the servant [of Allah]:
That whenever his knowledge increases, his arrogance and pride increase, and whenever his [good] deeds increase, his boastfulness and self-love increase, and whenever his age increases, his aggressiveness and desperation increase, and whenever his wealth increases, his stinginess and miserliness increase, and whenever his lot and prestige increases, his distance from people and his looking down on them and disregarding them increases.

Waleed Basyouni

“Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him) was asked: Which one is better for the servant [of Allah], istighfar [seeking Allah's forgiveness in prayer] or tasbeeh [glorifying Allah in prayer]? He answered: If a dress is clean, then incense and rose water are better, and if it is dirty then soap and water is better. tasbeeh is the incense of the pure ones, and istighfar is the soap of the sinners.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“What the servant [of Allah] dislikes is better for him than what he likes, because what he dislikes motivates him to make du`a, while what he likes distracts him [from worshiping Allah].

Sufyan bin 'Uyainah

“By the amount that you worry about dunya [worldly life], the concern for akhirah [the Hereafter] will leave your heart, and by the amount that you worry about akhirah, the concern for dunya will leave your heart.

Malik ibn Dinar

“I visited Singapore and saw stores with Arabic names, belonging to the Arab merchants who came there for trade and who were first to spread Islam, and wondered what our merchants today spread around the world.

Waleed Basyouni

“Ibn Masud was asked: How did you [early Muslims] greet Ramadan? He said: None of us used to dare to greet the hilal [crescent moon, the sign of the beginning of the month of Ramadan] of Ramadan with an atom of grudge in his heart for his Muslim brother.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“It is reported that al-Ahnaf ibn Qays was once told: “You are an aged elder; fasting would enfeeble you.” But he replied: “By this I am making ready for a long journey, Obedience to God, Glorified is He, is easier to endure than His punishment.”

Al-Ahnaf ibn Qays

“All blessings come in a package. With every blessing comes a test.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The realest things in this life are the things you can't see. If you can see it, its probably an illusion.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The worldly body is a prison for the believer, not because this life is miserable for the believing soul, but because that soul yearns to be somewhere greater. It yearns to be Home. No matter how wonderful this life is for a believer, it is a prison compared to the Perfect life that awaits them. This soul’s attachment is to God and the true paradise with Him. It wants to be there. But this worldly life is what keeps that soul from returning—for a while. It is the barrier, the prison.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The one who does not believe that there is any place better—who believes that this world is the best it can get—will become very impatient when this life isn’t perfect. They are quickly angered and quickly devastated because this life was supposed to be a paradise. They don’t realize there is something greater. And so this is all they want. This is all they strive for. Every effort, every ability, every opportunity, every gift endowed to them by their creator, is employed for the sake of seeking this life—of which nothing will come to them except what is written.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals—the more moderate we’ll be. And Islam is by nature timeless and universal, so if we’re truly Islamic—we’ll always be modern.

We’re not ‘Progressives’; we’re not ‘Conservatives.’ We’re not ‘neo-Salafi’; we’re not ‘Islamists.’ We’re not ‘Traditionalists’; we’re not ‘Wahabis.’ We’re not ‘Immigrants’ and we’re not ‘Indigenous.’ Thanks, but we’ll do without your prefix.

We’re just Muslim.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The first confounding of Iblis [Satan] on people: He prevented them from knowledge, because knowledge is a light, if their lights go out he [Iblis] would strike them in the darkness however he wishes.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“Pepsi ad: 'Live for now'... Groupon ad: 'You might only live once'... Sprite ad: 'Obey your thirst'...notice a common theme?

Yasmin Mogahed

“The problem with the youth of today is that, as soon as they learn something new, they think that they know everything.

Imam al-Albani

“You want a real jihad? Smile to your parents when you come home. Pray on time. Control your tongue, remind your brothers and sisters not to loosen theirs. Control your eyes, and control your thoughts.

Wisam Sharieff

“If knowledge is useful without actions, Allah, the Exalted, would never have dispraised the people of the book, and if actions were useful without devotion, He would never have dispraised the hypocrites.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The one who memorises the Qur’an must be known by the nights when people are sleeping. By his days when people are eating. By his sadness when people are rejoicing. By his weeping when people are laughing. By his silence when people are indulged in vain talk. And by his humility when people are boasting.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“If you're reading about people finishing the Quran multiple times in Ramadan and you're feeling low because you struggle to complete it just one time in Ramadan because you have a hard time reading arabic, don't think Allah doesn't recognize sincere effort.

The Messenger of Allah (salAllahu alayhi wa salam) said: Verily the one who recites the Qur’an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the company of the noble and obedient angels. And as for the one who recites with difficulty, stammering or stumbling through its verses, then he will have TWICE that reward.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“Verily the one who recites the Qur’an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the company of the noble and obedient angels. And as for the one who recites with difficulty, stammering or stumbling through its verses, then he will have twice that reward.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“A silent dua is seventy times better than a loud one.

Ibn Abbas

“Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah will receive a hasanah (good deed) from it, and the hasanah is multiplied by ten. I do not say that Alif-Laam-Meem is (considered as) a letter, rather Alif is a letter, Laam is a letter, and Meem is a letter.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“If you see an unbeliever, say, “I don’t know, maybe he will become a Muslim, and his life will be sealed with the best of deeds, and for his Islam he will emerge free of sin, as a strand of hair is gently removed from dough. As for me, Allâh could cause me to go astray, so that I become of the unbelievers, and my life could be sealed with the worst of deeds. So tomorrow this person might be of the Ones Drawn Nigh [to Allâh], and I of the distant ones!"

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Never mind what Allah has told you; what He has not told you is even greater.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't curse the emptiness. Its there for a reason. It is a wake up call to seek and find Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“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 the root of all their suffering is always attachments.

Yasmin Mogahed

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

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 and gratitude turns to entitlement.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that blessing, and we begin to love that person as we should love Allah. That person becomes the center of our world—all our concerns, thoughts, plans, fears, and hopes revolve only around them. If they are not our spouses, we are sometimes even willing to fall into haram just to be with them. And if they were to leave us, our whole world would crumble. So now, we have shifted our worship from the Source of the blessing to the blessing itself.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than Allah. We forget that the source of our provision is not and never was the money, but rather it was the giver of that money. Suddenly we’re willing to sell alcohol to avoid losing money in our business, or we need to take out loans with interest to feel secure. In so doing we are foolishly—and ironically—disobeying the Provider in order to protect the provision.

Yasmin Mogahed

“On that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.

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, and aggressiveness toward [acquiring the good things of] dunya.

Sheikh Ahmad al-Ajmi

“So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn’t true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart.

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 this world and everything it contains.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“What if Your blessings come through raindrops, what if Your healing comes through tears, what if 1000 sleepless nights are what it takes to know You are near?

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 thirst this world can't satisfy?

Yasmin Mogahed

“Today was a day of tears. The pain reminds this heart that this is not, this is not our home. It's 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 for ease. Because ease is often the hardest test.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They would say: Hast Thou not brightened our faces? Hast Thou not made us enter Paradise and saved us from Fire? He would lift the veil, and of things given to them nothing would be dearer to them than the sight of their Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“It will keep hurting you, until you let go and there remains nothing in the heart but Him. Once that happens you will no longer love for your own sake. Everything you want, love, or hate will be for, through and by Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Ironically, the less we chase after the approval and love of the people, the more we gain it. The less needy we are of others, the more people are drawn to us and seek our company. ... Only by breaking out of the orbit of the creation, can we succeed with both God and people.

Yasmin Mogahed

“But the more I fear the people, the more I become enslaved. True freedom only comes when I let go of the fear of anything and anyone other than God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Riyaa is a consequence of living in the orbit of the creation. The deeper and deeper I enter into that orbit, the more I become consumed with gaining human praise, approval and recognition. The more I enter that orbit, the more I fear loss—loss of face, loss of status, loss of praise, loss of approval.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The goal of this life is to realize the Truth of God’s greatness and my own insignificance and need before Him. The goal is to take myself out of the center and put Him there instead.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The dunya (that great job, certain type of spouse, having a child, school, career, etc) is our end and *Allah* is the means that we use to get there. We use that means, through making du`a’, to achieve our end (whatever it is that we’re making du`a’ for), and then get disappointed when our means (Allah) didn’t come through for us. We throw our hands up in the air and say our du`a’ are not being answered. Our means just isn’t coming through for us!

But, Allah isn’t a means. He is the end. The ultimate objective of even du`a’ itself is to build our connection to Allah. Through du`a’ we become closer to Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“True or pure love should never contradict or compete with one’s love for Allah. It should strengthen it. That is why true love is only possible within the boundaries of what Allah has made permissible. Outside of that, it is nothing more than hawa, to which we either submit or reject. We are either slaves to Allah, or slaves to our hawa. It cannot be both.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it. And though you submit your whole self to it, it will never bring you happiness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Real love, as Allah intended it, is not a sickness or an addiction. It is affection and mercy. Allah says in His book: “And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.” (30: 21)

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“Like everything in this dunya, marriage is only a means – a means to reach Allah. So if we pray for it and we don’t get it, perhaps Allah has chosen another means for us – perhaps through hardship, the purification it may cause and the sabr it builds, to bring us to that end: Allah. It may be, as only Allah knows best, that had He given us that amazing husband we made du`a’ for, it would have made us heedless and therefore not achieve our end at all.

Yasmin Mogahed

“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

“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

“If one truly understands the Reality and the power of Allah, one will realize that it is in fact an infirmity of the human mind to not rely on Allah.

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, and not even flinching, knowing that Allah will get you through.

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 to Allah, can we return with water from the mirage of oceans. Only Allah is lasting. Everything else, we are in a constant and active state of losing. Everything else is only that withering petal which we fall in love with today, but which crumbles tomorrow.

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“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

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“With my veil I put my faith on display – rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.

You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.

Yasmin Mogahed

“God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I’m not here to please men with my body; I’m here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman’s body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving – only to the man I marry.

So to those who wish to ‘liberate’ me, I have only one thing to say: “Thanks, but no thanks.”

Yasmin Mogahed

“So I am honored. But it is not by my relationship to men. My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life – despite what the fashion magazines say – is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Growing up, you read me the Ugly Duckling. And for years I believed that was me. For so long you taught me I was nothing more than a bad copy of the standard (men).

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 good people, and bad (distance from Him) to bad people. The greatest good is nearness to God, in this life and the next. And it is only ‘good’ people who are blessed with this. That is why the Prophet ﷺ has said: “Strange is the case of a believer, there is good for him in everything—and this is only for the believer. If a blessing reaches him, he is grateful to God, which is good for him, and if an adversity reaches him, he is patient which is good for him,” (Muslim).

Yasmin Mogahed

“What I have or do not have in a worldly sense is only relevant in as much as it brings me closer or farther from my Aim: God. This dunya (life) becomes nothing more than that dream that I experience for a moment and then awaken from. Whether that dream was good or bad for me, depends only on my state once I awaken.

Yasmin Mogahed

“...winning a billion dollars may be the greatest calamity ever to happen to me if it takes me away from God—my ultimate purpose. On the other hand, losing my job, all my wealth, and even falling ill, may in fact be the greatest blessing ever given to me if it brings me closer to God—my ultimate purpose.

Yasmin Mogahed

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