Reclaim Your Heart

Personal Insights on Breaking Free From life's Shackles

This is an Islamic and life-changing book. It is all about physical and spiritual purification. It is written by Yasmin Mogahed. This book is a heart-opening that is written to awaken the people. It convinces us to think about what we are doing in this material life and what should we do. In this book, she covers many aspects of life. She explains Attachments with our God and the material life, Love, Hardships, Relationships with the creator, and also explains a woman’s status, Ummah in a good manner.

The first topic of this book is attachment. which is started with the writer’s dream. In her dream, a little girl asked her a question “Why do people leave each other?” She gives a satisfying answer.

In the second topic, she explains the concept of love in the material world and also with our God. She explains how hardship comes with ease. Allah is enough for us to solve our problems and we should take help from Him. She also gives examples of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and His companions. In this topic, she explains what we want and what Allah does for us. Allah always does good for us. She gives the reference to the Quranic verse in which Allah (SWT) says, “It may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows, you know not.”

In the topic of relationship, she explains the relationship of the people with the Creator and His mercy on the people. She tells us about the status of women in this society and their importance according to Islam. Being the ummah of our beloved prophet (PBUH) we must have firm faith in Allah and focus upon our religion as Allah says in the Quran, “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of people until they first change what is in themselves.”

She includes the verses of the Quran related to the topics. After reading this book, we understand how can we detach from this material world and attach with our God. It is an interesting book and its language is simple. The short chapters of this book explain a lot. And everyone should read it and should avail themselves of this book.