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Yasmin Mogahed is an accomplished American columnist known for her insightful commentary on social and cultural issues. Born in 1980, she has made significant contributions to journalism, particularly in the area of cultural commentary, and has been recognized for her ability to bridge cultural divides through her writing.

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“Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!”

People Ifs Believe Punishment Hardship Shocking

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“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.”

Ifs Heart Water Ocean Ships Dunya

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“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.”

Ifs Giving Lost Given Forever Love You Sake What You Love Forever Love Dunya

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“Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don't reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He's been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you'll find. Walk and you'll arrive.”

“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.”

Ifs Giving Lying Break Truth Is Give Me Painful Pleasant Deceiving Muslim Don't Lie Lie To Me Truth Hurts Bitter Truth Painful Truth Don't Lie To Me

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“Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.”

Ifs World Sometimes Death This World Patient Separation Islamic Muslim Hereafter Passing Away Passed Away Islamic Wisdom Inspirational Death

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“If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.”

Ifs Want Inspiration Prayer Focus Islam Our Prayers

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

Ifs Inspirational Made God Wanted Hate Perfect Angel Perfection Excellence Self Hatred Nobody's Perfect Not Being Perfect Stop Hating

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“If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.”

Ifs Expectations Unhappiness Recipes

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“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.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Has Beens Sometimes Beautiful Despair Trauma Shattered Beautiful Heart

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“This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.”

Ifs World Giving Heart Ends Hands Dies Break This World Keys Owners Permission Dunya

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“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.”

Ifs Heart Sea Ocean Depth Boat Over You Dunya

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“There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside. Let go. And you'll know Freedom.”

Ifs Knows World Letting Go Chains Internals Chained

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“If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.”

Ifs Light Darkness Sun Ocean Raises

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“If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.”

Ifs Knows Dies Muhammad

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“Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.”

Ifs Inspirational Heart Speak Understanding Healing Messages Islamic Interaction Muslim Islamic Wisdom Interacting With Others

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“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.”

Ifs Heart Running One Direction

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“If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.”

Ifs Want Happens Desire Dies Relationship Dying Killing Good Islamic Neglect Principal Good And Bad Iman

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“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.”

Ifs Giving Accounts Generosity Als Stinginess

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“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!”

Ifs Thinking Looks Heart Past Remember Wonder Break Heartbreak Islam Encouraging Heart Break This Too Shall Pass

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“If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.”

Ifs Want Giving Heart Heartbreak This Life Deep Thought Muslim Break Your Heart

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“Do you ever wonder why often you can't have the things you want most? Perhaps if you got them in this life, they would distract you from Him. Perhaps He withholds some things that you love in this life to keep your heart from being distracted...and then gives those things to you in the next. Forever.”

Ifs Want Giving Heart Next Wonder Forever This Life Distracted

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“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”

Ifs Suffering Novel Struggle Study Roots Attachment

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“If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.”

People Ifs Want Running

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“There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.”

Ifs Differences Silence Listening

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“Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.”

Ifs May Loses Prayer Cry Ocean Mess Wet Remembrance Repent Never Lose Hope Dunya

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“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.”

Ifs Men Want Humanity Forget He Man Deserve Dear Internals Never Forget Priceless Deserve You Dear Sister

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“If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!”

Ifs Thinking Way Two Soul Earth Past Remember Walks Return Prophet Muslim Alcoholics Your Past Living In The Past Omar

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“Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.”

Ifs Left Praying Whispering

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“I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!”

People Ifs Believe Remember Faces Tests Angry Assuming Punishment Prophet Hardship Closest Shocked Tested

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“Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Looks Heart Eye Prayer Ears Tongue Data Thought Provoking Filling Our Prayers Guarding Replay

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“Love isn't supposed to torment you. If it does, there's probably something wrong.”

Ifs Doe Love Is Torment

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

Ifs Play Trouble Wake Up Waking Alarms Quran

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“Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Wise Women

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“If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.”

Ifs Knows Want Real Tests Loyalty Love Life Wise Women

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Born: 1980
Known for: Columnist
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