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Reclaim Your Middle: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles by Yasmin Mogahed
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"My value every bit a adult female is non measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a college scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what style magazines say-is something more sublime than but looking skillful for men."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Centre: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"Real honey brings about calm—not inner torment. Truthful love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: "that yous may dwell in tranquility." Hawa is the contrary. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, y'all will require it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase information technology to your own detriment, but never reach information technology."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"This globe cannot break yous—unless you give it permission. And information technology cannot own you unless you hand information technology the keys—unless you lot give it your heart. So, if you take handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them dorsum. This isn't the Finish. You don't take to die here. Reclaim your heart and place information technology with its rightful possessor:
God."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"And so oft we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or experience hurting, nosotros oftentimes fail to consider that the experience may exist the direct cause or result of another activity or feel. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT"
― Yasmin Mogahed, Repossess Your Middle: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nix. Non even broken hearts. Not even hurting. That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for us. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that we need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns us to remove our hand from the fire, emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal modify. We demand to detach. Pain is a class of forced detachment. Like the loved ane who hurts you again and again and once again, the more than dunya hurts us, the more we inevitably detach from it. The more we inevitably cease loving it."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Centre

"As Muslim women, we accept been liberated from this silent bondage. We don't need gild's standard of dazzler or fashion, to ascertain our worth. We don't need to become just like men to exist honored, and nosotros don't need to wait for a prince to save or complete usa. Our worth, our laurels, our salvation, and our completion prevarication not in the slave. Just, in the Lord of the slave."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my trunk is not for public consumption. I will non be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'chiliad a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined past the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral grapheme. So I won't worship your dazzler standards, and I don't submit to your way sense. My submission is to something college."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Middle: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"Nada is hard if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if y'all seek it through yourself."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

"Allah gives us gifts, but and so we come to love them as we should only honey Him. Nosotros have those gifts and inject them into our hearts, until they take over. Soon we cannot alive without them. Every waking moment is spent in contemplation of them, in submission and worship to them. The mind and the middle that was created past Allah, for Allah, becomes the property of someone or something else. And so the fear comes. The fearfulness of loss begins to cripple us. The souvenir—that should accept remained in our hands—takes over our heart, so the fear of losing it consumes us. Presently, what was once a gift becomes a weapon of torture and a prison house of our own making. How tin can we exist freed of this? At times, in His space mercy, Allah frees us…by taking it away.
As a result of it existence taken, we turn to Allah wholeheartedly. In that agony and need, nosotros enquire, we beg, we pray. Through the loss, we reach a level of sincerity and humility and dependence on Him which we would otherwise not reach—had it non been taken from us. Through the loss, our hearts plow entirely to face Him."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Gratis from Life's Shackles

"When we miss a plane, lose a task, or discover ourselves unable to marry the person we want, accept nosotros ever stopped to consider the possibility that information technology may have been for our own skillful? Allah tells us in the Qur'an: "…Merely peradventure y'all hate a thing and information technology is good for you; and mayhap you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not." (Qur'an, two:216)"
― Yasmin Mogahed, Repossess Your Centre

"In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make u.s. seek assistance. And then knowing that we're likely to get the wrong answer, He gives u.s. a multiple selection examination with only 1 option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking abroad all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has fabricated the examination simple.
It's never like shooting fish in a barrel to stand up when the storm hits. And that's exactly the indicate. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray"
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Costless from Life's Shackles

"And information technology is in that which you honey most that you observe the greatest exam."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Repossess Your Centre

"Subhan'Allah. It is in the process of 'losing' that we are given."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

"O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress inside. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the exterior world."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

"With my veil I put my religion on display—rather than my beauty. My value every bit a human is defined past my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you wait at me, you don't see a trunk. You lot view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.
Y'all come across, as a Muslim woman, I've been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don't answer to the slaves of God on globe. I answer to their King."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Repossess Your Centre: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

"Allah gives us gifts, but then we frequently become dependent on those gifts, instead of Him. when He gives us money, nosotros depend on the money - not Him. when He gives us people, we depend on people - not Him. when He gives us status or power, we depend on, and get distracted by these things. when Allah gives us health, nosotros become deceived. e remember we will never die"."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Costless from Life's Shackles

"We are told in the Quran: "…whoever rejects evil and believes in God hath grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And God hears and knows all things." (Qur'an, 2: 256) In that location is a crucial lesson in this poetry: that at that place is merely i mitt-hold that never breaks. There is merely one identify where we can lay our dependencies. At that place is but i relationship that should ascertain our cocky-worth and only i source from which to seek our ultimate happiness, fulfillment, and security. That place is God."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Repossess Your Heart

"the nature of the dunya as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments."
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Centre

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