Quotes About Detachment and Freedom from Dunya (Worldly Life)

“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and ...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“The more you let go, the higher you rise.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Holding onto dunya creates a veil that blocks Light from entering the heart. When you stop ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don’t think of the trials in your life (‘balaa’) as just a ‘test’ in the human form. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“O People! Work for the Hereafter (work towards heaven) . For indeed I have seen in my life, anyone who works for the Hereafter also ...

al-Hasan al-Basri

“He breaks you, to build you. Deprives you, to give you. This pain in your heart was created to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

““Do not love this world, Allah would love you and do not have a longing for whatever people ...

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

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

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.

Yasmin Mogahed

“I discovered that I tend to outgrow things too quickly. I look forward to a day when I outgrow ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There's something so much bigger than what I want and what you want. There's a world beyond the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Getting dunya out of the heart is like getting ink out of a sponge: Painful and repetitive ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When you let go of a gift that occupied your heart, there's an amazing light that comes with it ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Freedom comes when you love and fear the Creator more than the creation.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Gifts like marriage will be a means to bring you closer to God—so long as they remain a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Indeed I have fasted from all of the delights in my life, and the day that I meet You, that day shall be the Iftar of my fasting.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“When you are free inside, you will never allow anyone to take away your freedom. And when you ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our weight was only meant to be carried by God. We are told in the Quran: “…whoever rejects ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Fasting is all about detachment. It is the detachment from food, drink, sexual intimacy, vain ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Five times a day we must pull away from the dunya to focus on our Creator and ultimate purpose. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If there is anything—or anyone—other than God, that we could never give up, then we have a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Like the ocean’s water entering the boat, the moment that we let the dunya enter our hearts, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Detachment [from Dunya] is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“This worldly life, the dunya, is just like the ocean. And our hearts are the ships. We can use ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When what you hold on to is strong, you too become strong, and with that strength comes the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“One easy step to make the dunya stop breaking your heart: stop loving it!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Attachments are the chains that bind us to the earth. It only hurts because of them. Find freedom.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The world is a shadow: if you run after it, you will not catch it, but if you turn your back to it, it will follow you.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“If you are able to conquer your own nafs, other nufoos will automatically be conquered, for ...

Yasir Qadhi

“This world in the eyes of the believer is like the restroom: he has a need for it and uses it, but it occupies no love in his heart.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Allah has created you free, therefore be free the way He has created you, work solely for Allah and stop trying to please people.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Be indifferent to the world and Allah will love you; be indifferent to what people possess and ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it…

Umar ibn al-Khattab

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Quotes About Detachment and Freedom from Dunya (Worldly Life)

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

al-Hasan al-Basri

Yasmin Mogahed

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

Yasir Qadhi

Ibn Taymiyyah

Imam ash-Shafi`i

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Umar ibn al-Khattab

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