If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments
Yasmin MogahedYou canโt 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 isnโt Him youโre running towards.
Yasmin MogahedSalah 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 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