Ibn Ata Allah Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• 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 Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Religion

• If He opens a door for you, thereby making Himself known, pay no heed if your do not measure up to this. For, in truth, He has not opened if for you but out of a desire to make Himself known to you. Do you not know that He is the one who presented the knowledge of Himself to you, whereas you are the one who presented Him with deeds? What a difference between what He brings to you and what you present to Him!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doors

• I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Thinking

• If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

• Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Self

• If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Islamic

• Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

• If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
  If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
  If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
  If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Doubt

• One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Loss

• The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

• It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, May

• Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
  there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
  He has guaranteed that he will respond
  in what He chooses for you,
  and not what you choose for yourself,
  and at the time He chooses
  not the time you desire.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Despair

• The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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