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September 10, 2011 Quotes are a fetish of mine. I've read countless, I repeat countless, quotes of so many different individuals. Once, I had to actually choose [[my favorites]] from all the quotes you can find online to fill up a notebook, and I panicked. There wasn't enough pages! True story.. Enjoy these. P.S. Here are some quote sites I use :)
* thinkexist.com
* brainyquote.com
* beautifulislam.com * greatmuslimquotes.com * Drops of Wisdom - qisas.com/wisdom There are others, but I can't think of anymore right now.
--Aysha
"One day you will ask me which is more important - my life or yours? I will say mine, and you will walk away not knowing that You are my life." -Khalil Gibran
"As long as you know the stars, you will never be lost." -The Holy Quran
"Whoever learns lives & teaches will be proclaimed in the Kingdoms exalted." -The Prophet Isa aleyhi salaam (Jesus Christ, peace be upon him)
"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug." -Mark Twain
"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now." -Zig Ziglar
"Success is 1 percent inspiration; 99 percent perspiration." -Thomas Edison
"I and the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like this — putting his index and middle fingers together." -The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him
"Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first." -Muhammad, peace be upon him
Muhammad said, "I would not have the whole wealth of the world in the place of this revelation. . . O My servants who have oppressed your own souls by sinning, despair not of the mercy of God." A man said, "What of him who hath associated others with God?" Muhammad remained silent for a while and then said, "Know that him also God forgiveth; but on repentance." God saith, "Verily my compassion overcometh my wrath."
"He will not enter hell who hath faith equal to a mustard seed in his heart; and he will not enter Paradise who hath a single grain of pride, equal to a mustard seed, in his heart. " -The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him
"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the wrongs of the injured." -The Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu alayhi wa-alayhi wasallam "God said, I was a h i d d e n treasure. I would fain be known, So I created Man." -The Holy Quran "Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. " ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib "Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place."
-Prophet Muhammad, sallAllahu alayhi wa-alayhi wasallam
24:The Light 35: God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! God doth guide whom He will to His Light: God doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things. -Quran-e-Pak {The Pure Quran}
"Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face. " -The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him
"It is better for a leader to make a mestake mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing." -Muhammad, sallAllahu alayhi wa-alwayhi wasallam
"May God steal from you all that steals you away from Him."
-Rabi’a al-’Adawiyya
"Anyone who seeks Allah will surely find him."
-Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani
"The sign of God’s love is to bestow three attributes on His lover: A
generosity like that of the sea, a kindness like that of the sun, and, a
humility like that of the earth."
-Bayazid
Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it! -The Holy Quran
"If you do not know the way, seek were His footprints are." -Rumi
"Everyone projects the image of friendship, but true friendship is that
friendship which is established for the Pleasure of Allah. A true friend is
one who takes no offence when a weakness of his is pointed out. And he too
does not hesitate to point out the friend’s weakness and assist him in
rectifying it." [Moulana Yunus]
"Learn s i l e n c e as you have learned speech.
Speech will guide you, and silence will protect you."
-One of the scholars of Ihsan
"It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."
-Muhammad Ali
Wherever you turn, there is the Face of God. (2:115)
-Holy Quran
Fasting leads to non-existence, for, after all, all joys are there. God is with those who patiently persevere. (Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi)
"We belong to the same parents, Then why this difference? Let the Hindus and Muslims worship God alone. We came to this world like partners. We should have shared our joys and sorrows together."
-Nooruddin Wali (Nund Rishi) of Kashmir.
"What I am is something incredibly magnificent. I am life, and life is the only truth. Every animal, every flower, every rock is life, because everything is full of life. All of us are only one living being, and we come from the same place."
{Don M. Ruiz}
A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.
-Fethullah Gulen
"All wisdom can be stated in two lines:
What's done for you - allow it to be done.
What you must do yourself - make sure you do it."
-Khawwas
Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
[Ali ibn Abu Tabib]
"Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world."
-Ali ibn Abu Talib
Meet people in such a manner that if you die,
they should weep for you, and if you live,
they should long for you.
Ali [raziAllah talla anhu]
Anger is a fire kindled, he who restrains anger extinguishes the fire; he who gives vent to it is the first to be consumed by it. ~Hazrat Ali R.A
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. [St. Jerome]
“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.” -Jalaludin Rumi
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay
Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman
The universe and the light of the stars come through me. Rumi
If the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness, the side of the hill no grass on it. The ocean would come to rest somewhere. Rumi
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
People oppose things because they are ignorant of them. Imam Al Ghazali
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. Rumi
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. Jerry Falwell
He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. Turkish Proverb
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
-Michael Jackson
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray."
-Boonaa Mohammed
"Give good news to those who walk to mosques in the dark that they will have full light on the Day of Rising."
-Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wa-alayhi wasallam
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
–Sufi Proverb
If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it.
His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose,
and at the moment He desires,
not the moment you desire.
–Ibn Ata’llah
A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds. –Ibn Ata’llah
Knowledge is my companion, it is with me wherever I go. My heart is its container, not the bookshelf.
–Ali Raziatallah Anhu
Indeed the whole world is imagination. Only He [Allah] is the real in Reality. Whoever understands this knows the secrets of the spiritual path.
–Ibn Arabi
Haaa! Funny :
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
–Imam Al Ghazali
To completely trust in God is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
–Imam Al Ghazali
It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
–Rumi
“Those who love each other for Allah’s Sake, when they smile at each other, their sins fall from each other, just as the leaves fall from a tree before the winter."
-Mujahid
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
-Napolean
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
-John F. Kennedy
"Whosoever was asked about a piece of knowledge and he concealed it shall have a rein of fire in his mouth on the Day of Resurrection."
-The prophet Muhammad, sall Allahu alayhi wa-alayhi wasallam
"Allah did not make it obligatory upon the ignorant to ask before He had made it obligatory upon the scholars to teach."
-Hazrat Ali, may God be pleased with him
He replied, “If you do not disobey Allah during the day, He will wake you to stand before Him during the night because to stand in front of your Lord in the night is a great honor for you, and the disobedient do not deserve this honor.”
(At-Tahajjud, Ibn Abi Dunya)
What do I have to do with this life? Verily, my example in this life is the example of a traveler who went on a journey during a summer day, took shelter under a tree during a part of a day, then went on and left it.
—The Prophet Muhammad
Whenever the Prophet, sallAllahu Alayhi wa-alayhi wasallam, was grieved by something, he used to pray.
—Hudhayfah
Nations are nothing but morals:
If their moral disappear, they disappear.
—Hafiz Ibrahim (poet)
“If you don’t fear for the possibility of God’s punishment for the greatest of your deeds, then you are destroyed.”
—Hudhayfah b. Qatādah al-Marʿashīyy
Hide your good deeds (from the people) just like you hide your evil deeds.
—Abu Hazim Salamah b. Dinar
“Patience is the persistence of the religious impulse in face of the impulse of desire.”
ibn al Qudammah al Maqdisi, Mukhtasar Minhaaj al Qasideen, Kitab as-Sabr wa ash-Shukr, p.290, Maktabah Dar al Bayyan
The gnostic sees himself as having no right over anyone, nor deems himself as being more virtuous than anyone. This is why he does not reproach, demand or harm.
—Ibn Taymiyyah [d. 728H/1328CE]
I have never competed with anyone with the idea of defeating him. Whenever I compete with anyone, it is only in order to show him the truth.
—Imām al-Shāfi‘ī
As long as the tongue is occupied in dhikr, it will be safe from unbecoming speech and lies, because it never keeps quiet. Alike it is with the heart, if it is not occupied in love of Allah then it will love a creature.
—Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyah
“You can do with your manners what 1,000 scholars cannot do with their knowledge.”
– Sh. Waleed Abdulhakeem
If sins had an odor, no one would be able to sit near me.
—Muhammad b. Wasi’
:) This is beautiful:
I love three things that are hateful to people: I love poverty, sickness, and death. I love them because poverty is humility, sickness if expiation for sins, and death results in a meeting with Allah.
—Abū Dardā’
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself.
—Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
When some money was stolen from a righteous man who lived in Khurasaan, he began to weep.
Fuḍayl, who saw him in that state, asked, “Why do you cry?”
The man answered, “I remembered that Allah shall gather me and the thief together on the Day of Judgment, and I cried, feeling pity for him.”
When a man wrongs me, I pay him back with an act of mercy.
—Ibrahim at-Tamimi
Smile! Your teeth are not awrah.
– Shaykh Waleed Basyouni
Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
—Ibn Taymiyyah
How wonderful are the women of the Ansār, for their modesty does not prevent them from learning their religion.
—‘Ā’isha
When someone asked Imām Mālik about a person who calls another a donkey, and he replied that he should be punished. When the same questioner asked, “What if he calls him a horse?,” the Imām replied, “Then you should be punished.” (i.e. for asking such a question)
My sins, were I but to ponder them, are copious.
But greater yet is my Lord’s Forgiveness:
In my righteous deeds lies not my expectation,
But in the Mercy of Allah have I anticipation.
(Read on pg 36, Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, The Journey to Allah. Daar us-Sunnah Publishers. Birmingham: 2007.)
Give your wealth to your Lord, because your heart stays wherever your wealth stays.
—The Prophet ‘Īsā (Jesus Christ.) Peace be upon him.
The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Qur’an, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.
—Ibn al-Qayyim
There are some people who were deceived by the shelter of Allah and infatuated by the good praise of others. Therefore, do not let the ignorance of others about you overcome your own knowledge of yourself.
—Khalid bin Safwan’s advice to ‘Umar b. ‘Abd al-‘Azīz
‘And whatsoever you spend of anything (in Allah’s cause), He will replace it. And He is the Best of providers.’ (Qur’an 34:39)
Sleep on the back is that of the prophets, reflecting on the heavens and the earth; sleep on the right side is the sleep of the scholars and worshipers; sleep on the left side is that of the kings—who need to digest their food; and sleep on the stomachs is that of the devils.
—Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Once the heart has tasted the sweetness of true servitude to Allah and love for Him, nothing else will be dearer to him than that and nothing else will take priority over Allah in one's life.
Al Rum (The Romans) - Chapter 30: Verse 22 "And of His signs are the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colours. In this, behold, there are messages indeed for the learned."
"[Tears are a form of] mercy that Allah has lodged in the hearts of His servants, and Allah is merciful only to those of his servants who are merciful [to others]." -Muhammad, peace be upon him (Bukhari)
Allah does not punish for shedding tears, nor for the grief of the heart - Muhammad sall Allahu alayhi wa-sallam (Bukhari)
When Allah desires good for someone, He afflicts him (with hardships.) - The beloved Rasool, peace and blessings be upon him
