At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
Yasmin MogahedWhen you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.
Yasmin MogahedBreak in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.
Yasmin MogahedTo 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 MogahedThere 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