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`I'm (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 of the heart.

— Yasmin Mogahed

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

— 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

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize… It was only a dream

— Yasmin Mogahed

The human currency of praise is Monopoly money. It feels great for a moment to collect, but when the game is over, it's worthless.

— Yasmin Mogahed

The mind replays what the heart can't delete.

— Yasmin Mogahed

The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away

— Yasmin Mogahed

The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.

— Yasmin Mogahed

They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That’s why we run from distraction to distraction—and from attachment to attachment.

— Yasmin Mogahed

To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intended 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 Sahara (declaration of faith).

— Yasmin Mogahed