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 MogahedIn any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).
Yasmin MogahedTear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
Yasmin MogahedOn that Day, we will see the true reality. On that Day, we will realize that two rak`at (units) of prayer were greater than everything in the heavens and the earth. We will realize the priceless check that was left on our doorstep every night as we slept. There will come a day when we would give up everything under the sky just to come back and pray those two rak`at.
Yasmin Mogahed