Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

“Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.

“We all want love. From God, and from the creation. We are all running towards something. Ironically, the more we run after the creation, the more the creation runs away from us! As soon as we stop running after the creation, and reorient, as soon as we start running towards God, the creation runs after us. It’s a simple, simple formula:

Run towards the creation, you lose God and the creation. Run towards God, you gain God *and* the creation.

Allah is “Al Wadood” (The Source of Love). Therefore, love comes from God—not people. “To acquire love…fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”

When you fill yourself with the Source of love (Al Wadood), you become a magnet for love. Allah teaches us this in the beautiful hadith Qudsi: “If Allah has loved a servant [of His], He calls Gabriel and says: “I love so-and-so, therefore love him.’” He (the Prophet pbuh) said: “So Gabriel then loves him. Then he (Gabriel) calls out in Heaven, saying: ‘Allah loves so-and-so, therefore love him.’ And the inhabitants of Heaven love him. Then acceptance is established for him on earth.” [Bukhari, Malik, & Tirmidhi]

We’re all running. But so few of us are running in the right direction. We have the same goal. But to get there, we need to stop. And examine if we are running towards the Source–or just a reflection

“When you’re faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

“Look beyond. See through. He is showing you His signs so that you never forget who gave you the beauty of the stars, the moon, and the sun. And then He showed you their setting. To teach you. Never ‘face’ anything, but Him. Never believe that power lies in anything, but Him.
Never run. To anything, but Him. When you do, He’ll give you the world! But, only when you stop chasing it. And let it go.

Only when you ‘throw the staff’, and ‘face’ only Him.

These are not concepts. These are the truest Realities that exist. Outside of this Reality is only illusion.

“Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

“Heal by connecting to your higher purpose. You are never defeated.

“Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.

“Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

“In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

“Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

“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.

“You can’t run in more than one direction at a time. And you will only run in the direction you are facing. So if your heart is facing anything other than Allah, it isn’t Him you’re running towards.

“Allah said to Musa (AS): “And I have prepared thee for Myself (for service)” (20:41).
Some of us want to run the marathon without the training. We forget that even dough is prepared before it becomes bread. Your soul is being prepared. Like dough, it’s kneaded. Don’t lose yourself in the pain of kneading. Rise above your circumstance. Rise above your pain. Every process has its conclusion. Every circumstance comes to an end. Your circumstance is only the tool. *You* are the one being prepared and raised and developed. You are the one being grown. Rise up beyond this pain. Rise up and see through. There is something greater waiting for you on the other side: The stronger, purer, freer you.
Remember: He is greater than this pain. He is greater. Allahu Akbar.

“A lot of people have trouble balancing the love of the Creator and the love of the creation. It is something I myself have struggled with much of my life. On the one extreme, there are people who love the creation as they should only love the Creator. On the other extreme, there are those who reject the love of the creation all together. I think the correct balance is to understand it this way: We have only one Owner over our hearts. That Owner is God. But our hearts also yearn for companionship. The heart searches for its’ companion in the creation. And finding that companion of our heart is one of God’s greatest gifts to us. It is the ‘coolness of the eyes’ that the Quran speaks about. The problem is when we confuse *Ownership* and *companionship*. We take the creation as Owners and take the Creator as only a companion. And God knows best.

“If you wonder how you’ll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you’ve been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you’d never get through it. But you did. And look where you’re at now. This too shall pass!

“We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we can’t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldn’t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldn’t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldn’t taste the sweetness of reunion.
Glory be to the one who gives—even when He takes.

“Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

“Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

“Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.

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