Yasmin Mogahed – Poverty of the Soul

About this lecture

In this powerful lecture, Yasmin Mogahed draws a distinction between material poverty and the far more dangerous poverty of the soul — the state of a heart that is empty of God and filled with love of the worldly life. Drawing on Quranic verses, hadith, and the writings of Ibn al-Qayyim, she explores how the heart becomes enslaved to the dunya, what it truly means to be rich or poor in the sight of Allah, and how repentance (tawbah) can restore and even strengthen a broken heart. A deeply moving reminder to examine what we truly love and return to Allah before it is too late.