Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back. — Yasmin Mogahed

Allah is al–Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give. — Yasmin Mogahed

What’s given to dunya is lost forever. What’s given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you love, for the sake of what He loves, you’ll have what you love forever. — Yasmin Mogahed

Embrace life and all that God gives you–but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you. — Yasmin Mogahed

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts? — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t lie to me. Don’t deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. — Yasmin Mogahed

Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you’d give anything to remove it. — Yasmin Mogahed

Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan. — Yasmin Mogahed

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first. — Yasmin Mogahed

Take care of the hearts you’ve been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever. — Yasmin Mogahed

The mind replays what the heart can’t delete. — Yasmin Mogahed

There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very loveable. — Yasmin Mogahed

Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway. — Yasmin Mogahed

Seek those who help you hear your own heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t think being ‘religious’ means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it––He doesn’t harden it. — Yasmin Mogahed

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing — Yasmin Mogahed

Yes, the heart breaks. But, it also heals. — Yasmin Mogahed

The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya–it’ll stop breaking it. — Yasmin Mogahed

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor. — Yasmin Mogahed

Break in the hands of God, He’ll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you’ll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard. — Yasmin Mogahed

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it. — Yasmin Mogahed

People think it’s the mind that drives us. It is the heart. The mind is a slave to the heart. So check the condition of the heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either. — Yasmin Mogahed

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter. — Yasmin Mogahed

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream — Yasmin Mogahed

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives. — Yasmin Mogahed

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. — Yasmin Mogahed

We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then. — Yasmin Mogahed

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them. — Yasmin Mogahed

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! — Yasmin Mogahed

To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life — Yasmin Mogahed

This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar — Yasmin Mogahed

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart. — Yasmin Mogahed

Your heart is sacred land. Don’t let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life. — Yasmin Mogahed

If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life. — Yasmin Mogahed

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel. — Yasmin Mogahed

Everything is as it should be. God’s design is perfect. — Yasmin Mogahed

Sometimes I think life’s only mission is to bring us to our knees…the perfect position to seek God. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah. — Yasmin Mogahed

Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time. — Yasmin Mogahed

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it. — Yasmin Mogahed

There’s a powerful tool that allows you to distinguish between what’s Real and what’s just a phase. It’s: Time. — Yasmin Mogahed

There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference. — Yasmin Mogahed

Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest — Yasmin Mogahed

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken. — Yasmin Mogahed

Single moment in a string of infinite moments…and that they too shall pass. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass. — Yasmin Mogahed

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies. — Yasmin Mogahed

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly. — Yasmin Mogahed

People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it’s often in the test of ease that we fail most. — Yasmin Mogahed

Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn’t open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people. — Yasmin Mogahed

Sigh… I have learned that *everything* is so hard…except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us. — Yasmin Mogahed

Hope shouldn’t increase with good deeds and decrease with sin. In good deeds, my hope is for Allah to accept. In sin, my hope is for Allah to forgive. — Yasmin Mogahed

When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly–but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. — Yasmin Mogahed

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world–but most of all in relation to God. — Yasmin Mogahed

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have. — Yasmin Mogahed

With the withering of the rose, and with each fallen petal, Allah is reminding us that everything here is passing away. He is reminding us that nothing in this world will remain, except for Allah. — Yasmin Mogahed

O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. — Yasmin Mogahed

My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty–both internal and external–is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn’t want to marry you, he doesn’t deserve you. — Yasmin Mogahed