196 Quotes by 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.

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you’ll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments.

We will be asked, “what did you love most in this world? What did you spend life doing? What did you run after? Will it last? The things that you chased, will they last? Will they help you, or will they hurt you when the illusion of this life has passed?”

You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.

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

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.

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.

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