Islamic Quotes

“It was in those moments of loneliness that I found You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Many still confuse 'attachment' and 'love'. Attachments are about fear and dependency, and have ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes we bang, scream and cry outside a door, but God keeps it shut... because right behind ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If he doesn't want to marry you because you wear hijab, you don't want to marry him. Has our ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“We're still so caught up in appearances. No matter what a woman has achieved, the conversation ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“You can either go through your life terrified of hardships, or you can turn all your hardships ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“We ask God to cure us of our hardships, without ever stopping to consider that our hardships ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Change how you see those who hurt you. They're your biggest gift because they give you a fast ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“In letting go, the answer lies in love. Fall in love. With something greater, with the Real ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our parents raise us. But Allah is the true murrabi. From the time were born, He's watched over ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There are things in our lives like knives. Like kids, we don't care that its cutting us and ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“They insulted you, but it only hurt because you believed them.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When the world cuts you down, seek your Lord to build you up. And know, that nothing else can.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Enter upon the path to Allah and you'll meet the most amazing people along the way!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Fear your sins more than you fear the enemy as your sins are more dangerous to you than your enemy.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“When something happens that hurts you, don't get lost in the pain. Find the purpose. And let it ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Protect your heart with layer upon layer of guards. And the only guard is the *consistent* ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't think that your heart is 'strong'. The heart is a vulnerable fool. It turns easily. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The objective of life is to break every chain that holds you down, to hand them back to false ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Something to reflect on: We will wake up in the middle of the night when our child calls for ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Lack of khushoo is just a symptom. What captures your heart and mind outside salah, will ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!

Yasmin Mogahed

“You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Hijab IS a personal choice. It's a personal choice to submit to God rather than the fashion of ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I'm tired of shadows and reflections off the moon. I want the Source.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't fear the misfortune. Fear only that it should strike you while you're far from ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Never become stagnated. The same water that purifies, becomes rotten if stagnant.

Yasmin Mogahed

“We're a mix of different types of hearts. Its only through trial (prosperity & hardship) that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The more needy you are with the Creator, the more you are given. The more needy you are with ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“Innocence lost is not lost forever. Anything can be reclaimed. God remakes the dead. You, too, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Every time my heart looks away from Your direction—for even the blink of an eye—it cracks. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Ayah 22:73 teaches us: Every time you run after, seek, or petition something weak or feeble ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Look forward to going back Home. But make sure you're furnishing it.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our true suffering begins when we turn our wants into needs, and our one true need (God) into a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“You love what you obey. And you obey what you love...So be careful what you love.

Yasmin Mogahed

“It's so lonely down here without You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“We try to use God like a 'genie in a bottle'. We make a wish and throw away the bottle when it ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Remember, the heart that witnesses the King, can never worship a servant. Kalima isn't just a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't be sad! Because God sends the hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget; the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Rumi

“This life is going to seem very real. At times its going to make us cry and flee to illusions ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“This life is a training for the Reality beyond the test.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Be grateful for the empty inner place and the wound that pushed you to God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Tawakkul (complete reliance on God) is to strive with the limbs, hold on to hope, and let go of ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Its going to keep hurting, until you realize that there are places in the human heart created ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Often when we complain about 'Muslims' being 'this' or 'that', we really mean: 'everyone else ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Some feel lonely because they haven't found that perfect 'companion' yet. Sometimes Allah sends ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I think the reason we get impatient, stop, and give up is because we want to get paid. But it ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Behind every tear is a cleansing of the eyes, and in every spot you've ever been stabbed, is a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I keep walking because behind every sun’s setting is a rising, behind every storm is a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“With the creation, only when you stop needing, do you get.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“What’s given to dunya is lost. What's given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Your service of Him is His greatest gift to you. Your deeds aren't a gift from you to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“No one finds their way out of this forest—except whom You save. Save me. For truly, truly, I ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Everything you love in this life is only an imperfect approximation of the Real thing in ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I looked at myself and I saw only ugliness. I looked at You and I saw only Beauty. Only if your ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Even my falling on my face in the mud was from His mercy...lest I forget where I came from, and ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“"Spirituality" without obedience to God is self worship.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Remember, you can also drown in the 'halal'.The ocean is halal to swim in. But if it's all you ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There's something when looked at extinguishes the flame of lust from your soul and breaks the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

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“Sometimes you don't see appreciation or results in order to purify your acts from the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“You can only run in one direction. So you are either running to God, or you are running to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“A child angers mother, but she runs to his aid when he falls. Regardless of what you've done, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Treat people as you want Allah to treat you on the Day of Judgement.

Yasmin Mogahed

“It is not only *what* we love, but *how* we love that matters. Loving something as we should ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The moment we allow anything, other than our Creator, to define our success, failure, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“You'll know you have an attachment...because it hurts.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Dunya is supposed to be a tool to get to Allah. But instead, we use Allah as a tool to get to dunya.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Every wrong done to you is a chance to be forgiven by God: "Let them forgive and overlook. Do ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“It's simple. The dependency on anything other than God will make you weak.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't despair of turning to God because you have a 'past'. Omar, RA, had more of a past than ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Yesterday we woke up at dawn to catch the best Black Friday sales. Today we sleep through Fajr.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Beware of viewing your relationship with God as a transactional one. Thinking He’s just ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.

Rumi

“It isn't life circumstance that makes us suffer. It's the attachment to life circumstances that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The amazing thing about putting trust in God is when you're standing at the cliff and He tells ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“To fast is to say 'Dear God, I love food. I love drink. I love to fulfill my desire. But I love ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our problem is we compare God to a human being. If I wrong a person again and again, eventually ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“It's just me and You. It's always just been me and You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The heart may be in your chest, but it is in Allah's hands. Ask Him to open it.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The body is of the lower world, where we need to eat, sleep, bleed, and cry. And die. But the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Like Musa you too will be saved from the Sea. Just look through it and see Him. Then the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“When you seek dunya, you lose the hereafter. When you seek the hereafter, you gain both dunya ...