Reclaim your heart by Yasmin Mogahed

Contents

ATTACHMENTS......................................
■Why do people have to leave each other?
■People leave, but do they return?
■On filling the inner hole and coming home
■Emptying the vessel
■For the love of the Gift
■Peace on a Rooftop
■The ocean of Dunya
■Take back your heart

LOVE....................................................
■Escaping the worst prison
■Is this love that I'm feeling?
■Love is in the air
■The search for love
■This is Love
■Fall in love with the real thing
■A successful marriage: The missing link

HARDSHIPS...................................
■The only shelter in the storm
■Seeing your home in Jannah: on seeking divine help
■Hurt by others: How to cope and heal
■The dream of life
■Closed doors and the illusions that blind us
■Pain, loss and the path to god
■A believer's response to hardship
■This life: A prison or paradise?

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CREATOR.....................................
■Looking for God
■Salah: Life's forgotten purpose
■Salah and the worst kind of theft
■A sacred conversation
■We buried a man today: A reflection on death
■Why aren't my prayers being answered?
■Facebook: The hidden danger
■Tawakkul: Holding the handhold that never breaks
■Tawakkul, Hope, and striving: Three pieces of a whole
■This is awakening

WOMEN'S STATUS............................
■The empowerment of women
■A letter to the culture that raised me
■A woman's reflection on leading prayer
■Manhood and the facade of being hard

UMMAH..........................................
■Drop the prefix
■Be Muslim, but only in Moderation
■Unspeakable Tragedy and the condition of our ummah
■Today's opening of the red sea: Reflections on Egypt

POETRY...........................................
■A letter to you
■I grieve
■Just my thoughts
■A reflection on love
■I prayed for piece today
■On the struggle of life
■Stillness
■Die before your death
■Save me
■My heart is an open book
■The stab
■Niche
■Keep walking