Reclaim Your Heart Book Pdf

[Kathrine Selvage]

Thisbook 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.

Recently I've been thinking about poverty, but not the typical kind, the internal kind, poverty ofthe soul. True impoverishment, is internal impoverishment, the soul that's been created, but hasn'tyet realized why the heart that still beats, but has already died. Few people would ever want tofall, and no one likes to drown. Yet in struggling through this life, sometimes it's so hard not tolet the world in. Sometimes, the ocean of dunya enters our hearts. And just like the ocean thatenters the boat, it shatters our hearts, it breaks our hearts, it owns our hearts. And sometimes weend up at our lowest point, just like at the bottom of the ocean. And when we're there, we feel like

And that's the thing about the bottom of the ocean, no light enters it. But when you reach thatpoint, you're faced with a choice. You can either stay there until you drown. Or you can gatherpearls and rise again, becoming stronger from your swim and richer from your jewels. If you seekGod, he can rebuild your heart, rebuild that ship. He can transform what was once your greatestweaknesses into your greatest strengths and can become a means of redemption. Because see, that'sthe amazing thing about Toba and turning back to Allah, we're told that it's a polish. So not onlydoes it clean, it actually can make the heart even more beautiful than it was before it got dirty.

If you seek God, he can replace the darkness of the ocean with the light of his son. Yet How can weget there when we're faced and we live in a world that is constantly bombarding us and commanding usto worship other things? To love other things as we should only love God? How can we escape trueimpoverishment of the soul? Allah subhanaw taala tells us that there are a people who love others asthey should only love God. And yet when he describes the believers, he says, and he describes themas a shadow, hope and in that in order to escape true impoverishment. We have to be a shed,urbanists are overflowing in our love for Allah. But you can't love something that you don't know.

And you can't know something that you never speak to. And you'll never remember, we have to speak tohim, we have to remember him and remember him often. See, and many of us believe that all we have todo is live our lives however we want. And then before we die, just say that.

But see, the thing is, that however we lived is how we will die. And Allah subhanaw taala does notallow our tongues to stay La ilaha illa Allah at death, unless there is La ilaha illAllah inside theheart, unless we put a love first in our lives, we won't be able to put a love first in our death.And so in order for us to live a life that is full of the love of God, we need to put God at thecenter. And we need to not lose hope when we do reach that lowest point. And we ask God throughoutour lives that every time we slip, to allow us to come back and to stand back up and to rise. If wedo that, then and only then will God allow our tongues at the time of death. To say that ILA and

Sometimes, the world begins to look dark. But there's one thing that brings light is when you helprelieve a person's suffering and make their world brighter. In their darkest days. You send food,water and health care, warm clothes, and fuel to stay warm. You send shelter mattresses andblankets. You sit relief, hope and love. Thank you for working together for a better world.

Yesterday, I went to the beach. As I sat watching the massive Californian waves, I realized something strange. The ocean is so breathtakingly beautiful. But just as it is beautiful, it is also deadly. The same spellbinding waves, which we appreciate from the shore, can kill us if we enter them. Water, the same substance necessary to sustain life, can end life, in drowning. And the same ocean that holds ships afloat can shatter those ships to pieces.

The Prophet ﷺ did not withdraw from the dunya in order to be detached from it. His detachment was much deeper. It was the detachment of the heart. His ultimate attachment was only to Allah (swt) and the home with Him, for he truly understood the words of God:

This is the mindset of a traveler. There is a natural detachment that comes with the realization that something is only temporary. That is what the Prophet ﷺ in his wisdom, is talking about in this profound hadith. He understood the danger of becoming engrossed in this life. In fact, there was nothing he feared for us more.

The blessed Prophet ﷺ recognized the true nature of this life. He understood what it meant to be in the dunya, without being of it. He sailed the very same ocean that we all must. But his ship knew well from where it had come, and to where it was going. His was a boat that remained dry. He understood that the same ocean which sparkles in the sunlight, will become a graveyard for the ships that enter it.

The first metaphor that you gave:[[ about dunya as ocean and we sailing in a boat ,we should be living in dunya not let dunya live in ourself cuz if we let water [dunya] in to the boat [our heart] we will die.]] I think I have heard of it somewhere else.

Right on. MashaaAllah 3aleki. Every hadith that you have mentioned, I was already familiar with, so I felt so close, and I acknowledged your exact thought, I love your metaphors, and this reminds me of our beloved prophet(as), when the people of Quraish tried to bribe him to let go of his message, and his respond was. If they put the sun in my right hand, and the moon in my left, I will never cease the message of Allah. I thought that it was worded perfectly, and I am very proud of you. Ya Allah.

Reclaim Your Heart is not just a self-help book. It is a manual about the journey of the heart in and out of the ocean of this life. It is a book about how to keep your heart from sinking to the depths of that ocean, and what to do when it does. It is a book about redemption, about hope, about renewal. Every heart can heal, and each moment is created to bring us closer to that transformative return.

Reclaim Your Heart is about finding that moment when everything stops and suddenly looks different. It is about finding your own awakening. And then returning to the better, truer, and freer version of yourself. Many of us live our lives, entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment. Many of us have no idea why this happens.

Reclaim Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. It is about the journey in an 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.

I know that some of us feel a sense of attachment to certain things in our lives such as possessions; whether it is material possessions or emotional possessions such as a person we are involved with.

If you have ever faced this in your life where you feel like you have lost all hope, your mind and emotions seem out of control then I suggest you get yourself a copy of this book it will definitely change your life.

Before I share some insights of the book I would like to personally thank the Author Sister Yasmin Mogahed for inspiring me, you are truly a special Muslimah and role model and hope to read more inspiring books written by you Inshallah.

If a person or something in our life is our reason for living then something is totally wrong. If something finite temporary and fading becomes the centre of our life the reason for existing we will surely break. Imprisonment is the result putting anything where only Allah should be in our hearts.

And we should never love something other than Allah in such a way that it would be impossible to continue life without it. This type of love is not love but actually worship and it causes nothing but pain.

This is my second practice in my series of posts focusing on helping you reclaim your life. In this post we will discuss how to stop ignoring yourself and your own life and to stop being solely focused on the life and interests of your partner.

Rewilding is the process of reclaiming your true nature. It is the process of connecting to your authentic self, fueling your passion for living, and feeling fully alive and engaged with your own life.

Technology, social media, and the pressures to keep up with our responsibilities, pay bills, take care of children, and have marriages that last a lifetime, can consume our energy and leave us feeling depleted. All of this can lead to a disconnection from our true nature.

The beauty of this is, however, that now we have a chance to heal from all of that. Our marriage or intimate relationship can be the context in which we create a new way of being in the world. A way of being that gives us the freedom to be our wild, untamed, and natural truest self.

But when it becomes our sole source of joy and fulfillment, we are in trouble. We become like a wolf with its leg in a trap. Unable to run and be free; hindered, in pain and desperate.

Remind yourself that your partner is responsible and capable to take care of his/her own life. And it is more likely that your partner will thrive when given space and freedom to discover and pursue who they are without your managing, controlling or interfering.

We must learn how to balance the love and care for our partner with the love and care for ourselves. The key to creating a relationship that thrives over time is one in which both partners respect, acknowledge and support the life and interests of the other.

Using the lessons from the Quran, hadith, and scholarly work, Mogahed gives many personal insights about the ups and downs of life and how we can become more devoted to Allah despite them. I have found it to help me during times of confusion in decision-making, when I felt imprisoned by thoughts of something I coveted at the time, and whenever I felt I needed to refresh my imaan or faith because the world let me down.

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