Yasmin Mogahed
"[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher."
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"[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher."
"أنا لست هنا لأكون معروضة. وجسدي ليس للاستهلاك العام. لن أُختزل إلى مجرد غرض، أو ساقين لبيع الأحذية. أنا روح، وعقل، وخادمة لله. قيمتي تحددها نقاء روحي، وجمال قلبي، وحسن خلقي. لذا لن أعبد معايير جمالكم، ولن أخضع لذوقكم في الموضة. خضوعي لشيء أسمى."
Yasmin Mogahed
Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
"The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality."
Yasmin Mogahed
"They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction—and from attachment to attachment."
Yasmin Mogahed
"Let go of your grudges. Let the bitterness die tonight. Make a decision today that it’s time to move on. And begin again. New, this time. Never forget that what has passed you by was never meant to befall you. And what has befallen you, was never meant to pass you by. Know that sometimes Allah withholds from you, in order to give you something better. Keep your heart focused on Him, and He will take care of the rest. And remember: you will stumble, but that’s part of the path. Keep going. Keep rising, and refuse to give up."
Yasmin Mogahed
"The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away"
Yasmin Mogahed
"Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship)."
Yasmin Mogahed
"Shaytan will tell you that you’re not worthy, so give up. But his traps are based on lies. When was any of it because of *your* worth? It was all because of His mercy, His generosity, His love of giving, and forgiving. And those qualities don’t change because you’re messing up. Just seek them. Call Him by His mercy, not by your deeds."
Yasmin Mogahed
"I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to speak about what's really under the surface. It's easy to joke, but difficult to cry. It's easy to numb, but hard to feel. Ironically the real victims of emotional laziness are the people themselves. They end up choosing their emotional comfort zones over happiness. So in the end, they may not be 'uncomfortable' anymore; but they are also miserable."
Yasmin Mogahed
"She stood up. Something inside her had changed. "It was finally time," she thought. It was finally time to leave the past in the past. And move on. She took her first step. It felt like walking for the first time. It was strange to not be chained anymore. It felt like life. Like hope. Like happiness."
Yasmin Mogahed
"We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go."
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
"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."
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
"Speak your heart. If they don’t understand, the message was never meant for them anyway."
Yasmin Mogahed
"Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to ‘be strong’. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human."
Yasmin Mogahed
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