The words in this book are not meagre words, they are words that have the ability to elicit tears, tears which come from knowing and recognizing the truth and then attempting to find this truth within yourself.”

I wasn't following Yasmin's blog or was aware of her writings until I noticed her name a lot on Facebook & the latest RIS Conference in Canada.

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Selain tentang tauhid buku ini juga mengajarkan banyak topik lainnya. Aku mau nulis beberapa pelajaran yang bisa aku ambil setelah membaca buku ini (sebenernya banyak banget sih, tapi ini cuma aku tulis sebagian): This book's message could easily be summarised to this sentence: Loving dunya, or the material world, is a mistake because it is temporary while loving God is fulfilling as God is The Almighty who created the world and is infinite. I'm sure Yasmin had written a much better sentence than that ten times over throughout this book but you get the picture. That message could easily be written on a bookmark. Yasmin has written a book with a message that is very repetitive and does not go deeper than that one sentence. It is also not very original since many Islamic speakers touch on this very message. Sure, she helpfully provides Quranic verses to support her writing but don't go looking for a deeper analysis than that. WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO LEAVE EACH OTHER? When I was 17 years old, I had a dream. I dreamt that I was sitting inside a masjid and a little girl walked up to ask me a question. She asked me, “Why do people have to leave each other?” The question was a personal one, but it seemed clear to me why the question was chosen for me. I was one to get attached. Ever since I was a child, this temperament was clear. While other children in preschool could easily recover once their parents left, I could not. My tears, once set in motion, did not stop easily. As I grew up, I learned to become attached to everything around me. From the time I was in first grade, I needed a best friend. As I got older, any fall-out with a friend shattered me. I couldn’t let go of anything. People, places, events, photographs, moments— even outcomes became objects of strong attachment. If things didn’t work out the way I wanted or imagined they should, I was devastated. And disappointment for me wasn’t an ordinary emotion. It was catastrophic. Once let down, I never fully recovered. I could never forget, and the break never mended. Like a glass vase that you place on the edge of a table, once broken, the pieces never quite fit again. However the problem wasn’t with the vase, or even that

Yasmin aims to shift and refocus the reader’s vision of life through her writing and I can wholeheartedly say that 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.” Salah (5 Daily Prayers): Five times a day we must pull away from the dunya to focus on our Creator and ultimate purpose. Five times a day, we detach ourselves from whatever we are doing of worldly life, and turn to God. Prayer could have been prescribed only once a day or week or all five prayers could have been done at one time each day, but it is not. The prayers are spread throughout the day. If one keeps to their prayers at their specified times, there is no opportunity to get attached. As soon as we begin to become engrossed in whatever dunya matter we’re involved in (the job we’re doing, the show we’re watching, the test we’re studying for, the person we can’t get off our mind), we are forced to detach from it and turn our focus to the only true object of attachment. Siyam (Fasting): Fasting is all about detachment. It is the detachment from food, drink, sexual intimacy, vain speech. By restraining our physical self, we ennoble, purify, and exalt our spiritual self. Through fasting we are forced to detach ourselves from our physical needs, desires, and pleasures. Zakat (Charity): Zakat is about detaching ourselves from our money and giving it for the sake of God. By giving it away, we are forced to break our attachment to wealth. Hajj (Pilgrimage): Hajj is one of the most comprehensive and profound acts of detachment. A pilgrim leaves behind everything in his life. He gives up his family, his home, his Menurutku, Yasmin Mogahed berhasil menuliskan buku ini dengan sederhana tetapi mengena di hati. Kalo yang aku tangkep, di bagian awal buku ini intinya mengajarkan tentang tauhid, tapi yang unik adalah cara menyampaikannya ga kayak buku-buku agama yang jelasin tentang apa itu tauhid, ada berapa macam tauhid, dan teori-teori lainnya. Buku ini langsung mengambil contoh sesuai dengan kehidupan sehari-hari. Contohnya aja subjudul dari buku ini yang pertama adalah “Why Do People Have To Leave Each Other?” yang menjelaskan tentang pengalaman pribadi Yasmin Mogahed bahwa dia merupakan tipe orang yang sangat bergantung kepada orang lain, tapi ternyata dia sadar bahwa suatu saat orang tersebut akan meninggalkan dia dan dia kehilangan tempat bergantung. Kemudian dari sinilah Yasmin Mogahed menyadari bahwa satu-satunya tempat bergantung hanyalah Allah Swt. Lebih jelasnya bisa dibaca sendiri bukunya, really recommended!Allah gives us gifts, but then we come to love them as we should only love Him. We take those gifts and inject them into our hearts, until they take over. Soon we cannot live without them. Every waking moment is spent in contemplation of them, in submission and worship to them. The mind and the heart that was created by Allah, for Allah, becomes the property of someone or something else. And then the fear comes. The fear of loss begins to cripple us. The gift—that should have remained in our hands—takes over our heart, so the fear of losing it consumes us. Soon, what was once a gift becomes a weapon of torture and a prison of our own making. How can we be freed of this? At times, in His infinite mercy, Allah frees us…by taking it away. Selain rukun Islam, pemisahan juga melalui pakaian (trend). Seperti dengan berjanggut, mengenakan hijab, peci. Sebagaimana sabda Rasulullah, “Sesungguhnya Islam dimulai dalam keadaan asing dan akan kembali asing sebagaimana awalnya. Maka, beruntunglah orang-orang yang asing,” (HR Muslim). 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.” Yasmin Mogahed received her B.S. Degree in Psychology and her Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing her graduate work, she taught Islamic Studies and worked as a writing instructor for Cardinal Stritch University, and a staff columnist for the Islam section of InFocus News. Currently she’s a freelance writer and international speaker. She also hosts ‘Serenity’, her show on One Legacy Radio. 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. And pain is a pointer to our attachments. That which makes us cry, that which causes us the most pain is where our false attachments lie. And it is those things which we are attached to as we should only be attached to Allah which become barriers on our path to God. But the pain itself is what makes the false attachment evident. The pain creates a condition in our life that we seek to change, and if there is anything about our condition that we don’t like, there is a divine formula to change it. God says: “Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves.” (Qur’an, 13:11) After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began to realize something profound. I had always thought that love of dunya meant being attached to material things. And I was not attached to material things. I was attached to people. I was attached to moments. I was attached to emotions. So I