110+ Yasmin Mogahed Quotes On Marriage, Motivational And Inspiring

Yasmin Mogahed is an American Muslim author, public speaker and life coach. She is an internationally renowned speaker and author, and her work focuses on the psychological and spiritual aspects of Islamic faith. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and other Islamic publications, and her books have been translated into several languages. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Yasmin Mogahed on love, marriage, motivational.

Top 10 Yasmin Mogahed Quotes

1. Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.
5. 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!
6. Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
7. This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
8. Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.
9. You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
10. When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.

Yasmin Mogahed Short Quotes

• Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.
• If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.
• Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.
• Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
• Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
• Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don't let anyone take it from you
• Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
• Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
• Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.
• The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.

Yasmin Mogahed Quotes About Love

Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you. — 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

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

You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it? — Yasmin Mogahed

When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist. — 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

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one. — Yasmin Mogahed

Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next. — Yasmin Mogahed

Yasmin Mogahed Quotes About Inspiring

Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

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

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

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you. — Yasmin Mogahed

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance. — Yasmin Mogahed

Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow. — Yasmin Mogahed

Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full. — 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

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

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King. — 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

The people will come and go. Sometimes they'll be there for you. Sometimes they wont. Some will love you, some will not. This tide was never meant to be still. Step away from time to time. And know that only a heart fixed on the unmoving spot can ride the waves of this ever-changing, ever-fading life. — Yasmin Mogahed

We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them. — Yasmin Mogahed

Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. — 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

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change. — Yasmin Mogahed

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind. — 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

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men. — 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

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! — 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

Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall. The ground is where humility lives. Take it. Learn it. Breathe it in. And then come back stronger, humbler and more aware of your need for Him. Come back having seen your own nothingness and His greatness. — Yasmin Mogahed

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! — Yasmin Mogahed

When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker. — Yasmin Mogahed

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same. — Yasmin Mogahed

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you — Yasmin Mogahed

You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help). — 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

You've been given status today, but never forget where you came from. You came from dirt and will return to dirt. You will be on that day as you began: just you and Him. — Yasmin Mogahed

Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him. — 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

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

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

Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator. — Yasmin Mogahed

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. — Yasmin Mogahed

The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God. — Yasmin Mogahed

Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from. — Yasmin Mogahed

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

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? — 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

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

Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love. — Yasmin Mogahed

So often we think that Allah only tests us with hardships, but this isn't true. Allah also tests with ease. He tests us with na`im (blessings) and with the things we love, and it is often in these tests that so many of us fail. We fail because when Allah gives us these blessings, we unwittingly turn them into false idols in the heart. — 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

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

Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you. — 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

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

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them. — 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

Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be. — Yasmin Mogahed

Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God. — Yasmin Mogahed

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going. — 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

When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more! — Yasmin Mogahed

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them. — 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

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

Don’t you think there’s a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman’s greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man? — Yasmin Mogahed

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith). — Yasmin Mogahed

Most of all, we must never be deceived. We must never allow ourselves to think that anything in this world succeeds, fails, is given, taken, done, or undone without Allah. It is only by our connection to our Creator that we rise or fall in life, in our relationship with our world—and with all of humanity. — Yasmin Mogahed

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke. — Yasmin Mogahed

My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. — Yasmin Mogahed

As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave. — Yasmin Mogahed

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered. — Yasmin Mogahed

To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey. — 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

Life Lessons by Yasmin Mogahed

1. Yasmin Mogahed teaches us to be mindful of our thoughts and to use them to create a positive outlook on life. She encourages us to be grateful for the blessings we have and to focus on the good in our lives.
2. She also emphasizes the importance of self-care and reminds us to take time to nurture ourselves and to take care of our mental and emotional wellbeing.
3. Finally, she reminds us to be kind to ourselves and to practice self-compassion, understanding that we are all imperfect and that it is okay to make mistakes.