Healing the Emptiness Quotes

“Tears are not weakness–they are mercy. Quran is medicine. Duaa is salvation. Prostration is recovery, and the last third of the night is our emergency room. Cry to Allah and you will heal. Break to Allah and He will mend your heart.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Negative self-talk is poisonous. When we think negatively, when we beat ourselves up, when we lack self-compassion, we are actually drinking poison.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“The Prophet (pbuh) heard a man saying: “Oh Allah, I ask You for patience (sabr).” The Prophet (pbuh) said: “You have asked Allah for calamity; rather ask Him for well-being (Aafiyah).” (at-Tirmidhi 3527)”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“We will bleed in this life. We will get hurt sometimes. And our heart will break. But there is a way to heal and always come back stronger and even more beautiful. The first step to healing is: diagnosing the root cause of our pain.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“As we examine how hardships affect us, we realize that not everyone comes out the same. One gust of wind can completely uproot some trees, while leaving other trees firm and growing.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Emotions are the driving force–like the acceleration in a car. And the Aql is like the brakes. We need the acceleration to function in order to move anywhere. If the acceleration breaks down (if the person has no emotion), the car will stand still. But we also need working brakes. If we have a car with only acceleration, but no working brakes (emotional regulation/Aql), we will crash.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Sometimes when we feel empty, we don’t realize that our soul is crying out. That our heart is starving for God. Instead, we look to distract ourselves with other things, other people, other activities.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“closing in, I hold onto a very, very deeply rooted positive opinion of Allah.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Verily with the hardship, comes ease” (Quran 94:6).”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Our trials can cure us, purify us, strengthen us, and bring us back to who we were meant to be. They prepare us to meet our Creator with a beautiful heart.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“The second cause of unhealthy soil is weeds or toxicity. The fruits of our actions can never be healthy if our soil is poisoned by the weeds of sin and a toxic environment, friends, habits, or input from the eyes, ears and tongue.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“The first cause of depleted soil is lack of nourishment or ghafla (heedlessness). When our lives lack the water and oxygen of thikr, (remembrance: salah, athkar, Quran), the tree will suffer and cannot grow properly. We will see the result as unhealthy or rotten fruit (actions). The cure is the remembrance of Allah.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Once a person has embraced Islam wholeheartedly and submitted to God, obedience to the rules becomes easier.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Suffering is what happens when we repeatedly ignore the message of our pain.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“Because no matter how dark the night gets, the sun always, always, rises again.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being

“The heavy heart is caused by the creation, and so the antidote is to rise above the creation and exalt the Creator: “Glorify the praises of your Lord.” And then the second part of this prescription is to prostrate–to humble ourselves and submit to God. This is the heart’s greatest healing.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Healing the Emptiness: A guide to emotional and spiritual well-being