Love and Happiness | A Collection of Personal Reflections, Thoughts and Quotes By Yasmin Mogahed

Pain is real. Loss is real. And for many Muslims navigating life in a world that often feels relentless, the struggle to hold onto hope, meaning, and inner peace is equally real. Love and Happiness by Yasmin Mogahed is a collection of personal reflections, thoughts, and quotes written for those moments — the ones when the weight of what we carry threatens to overwhelm us, and when we need to be reminded that there is still light.

About the Book

A Voice for the Struggle

Yasmin Mogahed writes with the kind of honesty that comes from lived experience. Love and Happiness does not pretend that the path is easy or that faith eliminates difficulty. It acknowledges loneliness, defeat, disappointment, and the exhaustion of chasing things in this dunya that were never going to satisfy. But it also points, consistently and persistently, toward something more stable — toward Allah, toward meaning, toward the kind of love and happiness that does not depend on the fading things of this world.

Reflections, Thoughts, and Quotes

The book is organized as a series of short reflections and quotes rather than long chapters — making it ideal for dipping in and out of, returning to particular passages, or reading a few lines when time is short but the heart needs something. Each entry is self-contained, which means the book can be read from beginning to end or opened at random and still offer something of value.

The Central Message

The thread running through the entire book is a simple but profound Islamic truth: that the human heart was not made for this world. It was made for something greater, and the pain we feel when we place our hearts in the things of this dunya — in people, in status, in outcomes — is a signal, not a sentence. Love and Happiness gently, repeatedly, and eloquently points the reader back toward the One their heart was made for.

Who This Book Is For

Love and Happiness is the book for the Muslim who is going through something difficult and needs to be reminded of what is real and what is not. It is equally suited to those who are not in crisis but want a collection of Islamic wisdom to return to regularly as a source of grounding and perspective. It makes a thoughtful and meaningful gift. Published by IDIFY Publishing.