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“People always ask: how to balance dunya and deen. It is simple. Use dunya for deen. Deen/Allah is the goal. Dunya is the tool to get there.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our problem is simple: We're looking for God in the creation. So we break again and again.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You spent your life seeking love. But one day you realize it was in those moments of giving—not in receiving—love, that you found the most happiness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The purposeful nuance and spectrum of God-created emotions have been bullied by the only 'acceptable' one: happiness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If a person finds out they're sick, all effort goes only to finding the right doctor and the best medicine. Only when all means fail, we turn to God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When a hardship hits, we start to exert ourselves in means and forget the very purpose of the hardship: to push us to exert ourselves in worship.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If I asked by my merit for what I deserve, I would get nothing. But, I asked by Your generosity, so I got everything.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Islam and hijab protects a woman from being objectified, without her having to sacrifice any of her femininity!

Yasmin Mogahed

“My love for you used to have nothing to do with Him. So it was not love for you. It was love for me.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The one who despairs because of a sin, forgot that the sin that makes you repent, and be humble before God, is better than the good deed that makes you arrogant.

Yasmin Mogahed

“In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them, anyway.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The golden rule of relationships: Every situation passes. All that remains is how you treated each other in the moment before it does.

Yasmin Mogahed

“They want you to smile. No matter what you're feeling inside, they just want you to smile.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light.

Rumi

“The only reason something looks like a problem to us is because we are looking at it, instead of God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“There's a difference between going to Allah like a beggar, and going to Allah like a merchant, demanding payment.

Yasmin Mogahed

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