Yasmin Mogahed - Alchemy of Attachment

About this lecture

In this lecture, Yasmin Mogahed explores the concept of spiritual attachment — the innate emptiness within every human being and what happens when we try to fill it with the wrong things. Drawing on Quranic verses, relatable analogies, and human psychology, she explains how our deepest attachments reveal what truly owns our hearts, and why placing anything — even halal blessings like family, wealth, or career — at the center of our lives in place of Allah leads to pain, anxiety, and spiritual emptiness. She offers a practical path forward through increasing dhikr, deepening our knowledge of Allah, and learning to love the creation through the hand rather than the heart.