Quotes About Despair

“It is worse to be hopeless about the forgiveness of Allāh than to sin.

“How do you get yourself to keep trying when something looks so impossible? Just remember Hajar and how she ran the same course seven times looking for the impossible: water in a desert.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You lost hope because you saw only your sins, but could not see what was greater: His mercy. You felt trapped because you saw only the storm, but could not see what was stronger: His refuge.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes we lose hope in turning to God and asking for His help because we feel like we have done too much wrong. And yet think of a child who has just angered his mother and immediately after trips and falls on the stairs. Even if that child had just angered his mother to tears, the moment he falls and cries for help, she runs to him. This is human mercy. And God is infinitely more merciful than a mother is to her child. So, do you think—no matter what you’ve done—when you’re falling and cry out to the *most* merciful…He wouldn’t come save you?

Yasmin Mogahed

“The scholar who has every knowledge must not cause people to despair in Allah's mercy, and will not dare them in disobeying Allah. Making haram things halal is kufr, and despair of the mercy of Allah is kufr.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“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

“Why do we get hopeless and give up? Often it is for one simple reason: because we are harder on ourselves than God is on us.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Iblees (Satan) name comes from the root بلس (balasa) which means to give up hope or to despair, because he despaired in the mercy of God. Thinking that you’ve slipped up or intentionally sinned so much that Allah can’t and won’t forgive you isn’t real talk, it’s satanic.

Abdel Rahman Murphy

“Turn every fall into a rise, by refusing to be conquered. Refuse to let despair win. Let nothing own you but God. That's where hope never dies.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Despair not from your Lord's blessings, If He had wished that you reach the hellfire eternally He would not have inspired your heart towards Him.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

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