{"author":"Yasmin Mogahed","author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"Be the moon in somebody's night. Be the yusr (ease), in somebody's usr (hardship).","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["ease","moon"],"id":212,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"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.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["human","money","praise"],"id":6105,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up — stronger from the swim and richer from the jewels.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["choice","journey","motivational","ocean"],"id":13898,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["dependence","happiness","secret"],"id":28544,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["allah","creation","human","islam","reward"],"id":34131,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.You see, 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.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["god","hijab","islam","muslim-woman","veil"],"id":51196,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["activist","ego","god","heart","islam","knowledge","love","prayer","purification","worship"],"id":52685,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"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.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["allah","blessing","hardship","idols","test"],"id":60081,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"I have so much respect for the emotionally brave. The ones who put in the emotional work and take the real risks of being vulnerable and removing masks. It's easy to make chitchat, but it's hard to speak about what's really under the surface. It's easy to joke, but difficult to cry. It's easy to numb, but hard to feel.Ironically the real victims of emotional laziness are the people themselves. They end up choosing their emotional comfort zones over happiness. So in the end, they may not be 'uncomfortable' anymore; but they are also miserable.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["bravery","vulnerability"],"id":75818,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"},{"text":"Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["calamity","humility","inspiration","life"],"id":84271,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}