Yasmin Mogahed is a Muslim scholar based in the USA. She is a specialist in spirituality, psychology, and personal development. She completed her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. These inspirational Yasmin Mogahed Quotes will uplift your life.
Best Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
- “Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.” – Yasmin Mogahed
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“Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Blessings come in packages of two. With every blessing is a test. So don’t ever envy people who seem to have more than you. The more blessings, the more tests. And the greater the blessing, the harder the test.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “We are always looking for signs. We are always asking for God to ‘speak’ to us. But those signs are all around us. They are in everything. God is always ‘speaking’. The question is whether we are listening.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Some feel lonely because they haven’t found that perfect ‘companion’ yet. Sometimes Allah sends everyone else away so you can find that only in Him.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Sometimes the gifts of God aren’t wrapped as we expect.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He’d saved for you, the sea.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you… And there are others who will understand – without you even speaking a word.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.” – Yasmin Mogahed
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“It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Your heart is sacred land. Don’t let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “There’s a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn’t very loveable.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Don’t worry about what the people say. Sometimes they’ll praise you. Sometimes they’ll condemn you. All these things all fade away. And in the end, Allah takes care of everything. Perfectly.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn’t penetrate.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.” – Yasmin Mogahed
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“Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you’d give anything to remove it.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it’s often in the test of ease that we fail most.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “If you want to know what’s Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “When you suffer, don’t speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don’t stop.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Ignoring a Reality doesn’t make it less Real. It’s still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn’t stop it from happening.” – 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
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“You put your head on the ground, and in that moment everything was okay.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “This world isn’t perfect. That means it isn’t perfectly good; but it isn’t perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Salah 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 Mogahed
- “Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “I loved. I lost. So, I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost…so it was never lost.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Know that transformation sometimes begins with a fall. So never curse the fall.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.” – Yasmin Mogahed
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“The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Your beauty is in your sensitivity. Don’t let anyone take it from you” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it’ll stop breaking it.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “He chose better for me, He always chooses better” – Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
- “If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Don’t expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ‘perfect’ version is saved for jennah.” – Yasmin Mogahed
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“The one who knows himself isn’t deceived by either praise or criticism.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “There’s a time for words and a time for silence. If you’re listening, you’ll hear the difference.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.” – Yasmin Mogahed Quotes
- “Leaving the people and places you love is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “Everything you have is on loan. Foolish is the one who gets attached to a loan.” – Yasmin Mogahed
- “My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.” – Yasmin Mogahed