When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
Yasmin MogahedRead
Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
Interpretation
Life can be challenging, but we should seek divine help for ease in our struggles.
Yasmin Mogahed's quote emphasizes the idea that while life's challenges can be overwhelming, there is always a source of relief through divine assistance. It encourages individuals to acknowledge their difficulties while also recognizing that they can find support and ease from a higher power by sincerely seeking help.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming personal struggles.
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.
God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that Iβm not here to please men with my body; Iβm here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a womanβs body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.
Tawwakul is not an act of the limbs-it is an act of the heart. And so while the limbs are striving hard, the heart is completely reliant on Allah. This means whatever the outcome of the limbs' striving, the heart will be completely satisfied, knowing that it is the flawless decision of Allah. But in order to reach this level, one must hold on to hope, strive with the limbs, and let go with the heart.
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`im (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 in the heart.
Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
Many years ago, our father Ibrahim (AS) made a choice. He loved his son. But He loved God more. The commandment came to sacrifice his son. But it wasn't his son that was slaughtered. It was his attachment to anything that could compete with his love for God. So let us ask ourselves in these beautiful days of sacrifice, which attachments do we need to slaughter?
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.
Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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