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“Lose yourself, lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything.

“If what I love and what You love are not the same, make it easy for me to do what is most beloved to You—not what is most beloved to myself.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And if He bars against you all ways and passages, He will show you a secret way, which no man knows.

Rumi

“What if everything—everything—was just about seeing You?

Yasmin Mogahed

“When we are empty and at our weakest it's hard to give love. Even to God. It's then that what we need most is to fill ourselves with His love for us.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you've given your heart away, take it back. You don't belong to any of this. You belong to Him. It is unjust to give away what belongs to another.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Ibrahim (as) was thrown into fire. God willing none of us will ever face such a trial in this life. But there is not a person who won’t get thrown into some sort of emotional, psychological or social fires in their life. And don’t think for a moment that God cannot make those fires cool for us.

Yasmin Mogahed

“He has sent the month of the Quran to elevate us and bring us from our isolation to His nearness.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if you seek it through yourself.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“I don't belong to any of this. I belong to You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The same test repeats itself over and over in different forms...until you pass it, until you learn the lesson it was sent to teach.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you want to know where you stand with God, ask where God stands with you.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When you are free inside, you will never allow anyone to take away your freedom. And when you have inner freedom, you can look through tyrants and thugs to the Lord of the tyrants and thugs. When you are free inside, you become unenslaveable, because you can only enslave a person with attachments. You can only threaten a person who is afraid of loss. You only have power over someone when they need or want something that you have the ability to take away. But there is only one thing which no person has the power to take away from you: God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“We must first conquer greed, selfishness, shirk, ultimate fear, love, hope and dependence on anything other than Allah. We must conquer hubb ad-dunya (love of dunya)—the root of all our diseases, and all our oppression. Before we can defeat the Pharaohs in our lives, we must defeat the Pharaoh inside ourselves.

Yasmin Mogahed

“To understand the concept of tadaru, imagine yourself in the middle of an ocean. Imagine that you are all alone on a boat. Imagine that a huge storm comes and the waves become mountains surrounding you. Now imagine turning to God at that point and asking for His help. In what state of need, awe, dependency and utter humility would you be in? That is tadaru. Allah says that He creates conditions of hardship in order to grant us that gift. God does not need to make things hard for us. He creates those situations in order to allow us to reach a state of closeness to Him, which otherwise we’d be unlikely to reach.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When I looked into history I found a small number of individuals whose lives mirrored the life-cycle of a grain of wheat. They were torn from their roots, then crushed, then ground in mills, then kneaded with fists, then rolled out and baked in ovens at high temperatures… just so they could provide food for others.

Mostafa Saadeq Ar-Rafe'ie

“Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end.

Babar Ahmad

“Muadh ibn Jabal (ra) was undergoing the pangs and agonies of death, he cried out, “O Allah! Bear witness that I love You, so do with me whatsoever You wish!”

Mu'adh ibn Jabal

“When an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by bearded Arab gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “hostage.” But when an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by uniformed white gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “terrorist.” The world causes uproar over the former but is silent over the latter. “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” observed Martin Luther King.

Babar Ahmad

“The Quran is not just a book that mentions stories which are centuries old: it is a book that mentions the present. “We have certainly sent down to you a Book in which is your mention. Will you then not reason?” (Quran 21:10)

Babar Ahmad

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