Reclaim Your Heart

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Reclaim Your Heart gave me a whole new perspective on the purpose of life. I don’t believe that anyone who reads this book could not benefit from its wisdom.” Like the sun that sets at the end of the day, so too will Ramadan come and go, leaving only it's mark on our heart's sky.” Yasmin Mogahed is an American-born Muslim author and speaker. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in the United States. Mogahed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies from the Islamic American University. She has also completed a course in Islamic chaplaincy from Hartford Seminary.

So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT” We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not even pain. 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 change. We need to detach. Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more dunya hurts us, the more we inevitably detach from it. The more we inevitably stop loving it.” In making it to the world beyond, we must see life as a fleeting enjoyment, not a final destination, for it is the means, not the end. We must place life in our hands, not in our hearts, for whatever is placed in the hand can be dropped with ease, while what we hold dear in our heart is always difficult to let go. In her powerful new book, Yasmin Mogahed shows readers how to break free from the harmful beliefs and patterns that keep them from achieving true happiness. With clarity and compassion, she provides practical tools and guidance for transformation.Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if you seek it through yourself.” If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.” If you’re ready to live a life of joy, love, and purpose, then this book is for you. It’s time to Reclaim Your Heart. Many of us live our lives entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment. Often, we have no idea why this happens. Reclaim Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. It is about the journey in and out of life’s most deceptive traps.

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.” 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.” It’s never easy to stand when the storm hits. And that’s exactly the point. By sending the wind, He brings us to our knees: the perfect position to pray.”In his mercy, He sent the storm itself to make us seek help. And then knowing that we’re likely to get the wrong answer, He gives us a multiple choice exam with only one option to choose from: the correct answer. The hardship itself is ease. By taking away all other hand-holds, all other multiple choice options, He has made the test simple. However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edges of tables.”

Reclaim your heart is a book which teaches its readers how to swim through the ocean of life, knowing it is nothing but a place of delusion. How to weather the unfavorable storm, knowing that the hereafter is the Muslims’ final abode. It teaches perseverance, patience, hope in no one but in Allah alone, it teaches the purification of one’s heart from material elements that are poised towards staining and swaying the heart away from the remembrance of the creator. It is a book which allows the reader to clearly distinguish between their cravings, needs, desires, and the biddings of the Lord of the worlds. Many of us live our lives entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment. Often, we have no idea why this happens. Reclaim Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. It is about the journey in and out of life’s most deceptive traps. This book was written to awaken the heart and provide a new perspective on love, loss, happiness, and pain. A manual of sorts, Reclaim Your Heart will teach readers how to live in this life without allowing life to own you. It is a manual of how to protect your most prized possession- the heart. Greatness is for those who purify their hearts, waiting for the Divine call. Greatness is for those who see life as a fleeting moment. Greatness is for those who see love, betrayal, disappointments, cravings, desires, needs, and wants, as materials of this world. For true love lies in sanctifying one’s heart for the one whose love was the first and will be the last — Allah!

A book which teaches its readers how to swim through the ocean of life, knowing it is nothing but a place of delusion.” CONTAINS SPOILERS