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 MogahedTo me, jennah is the place where you get to be with the people you love, including those you can't always be with in this life. And being with them forever.
Yasmin MogahedIf you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.
Yasmin MogahedEmbrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
Yasmin MogahedOur 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