Islamic Wisdom Quotes

• When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

  Rumi

  Positive, Islamic, I Hate You

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, People, Faults

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• When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Islamic

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• You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Success, Religious

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Oct 02, 2014

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• People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Faith, Brother, Islamic

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• The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

  Muhammad

  Strength, Being Strong, Powerful

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• Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  God, Wisdom, Religious

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• Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Islamic, Healing

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• Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Betrayal

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• Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Patience, Religious, Anger

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Jan 04, 2015

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• Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Fear, Islamic, Pride

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 72,

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• Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

  Ralph Charell

  Independent, Player, Thinking

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• Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Religious, Islamic

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• Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Love, Islamic, Knowledge

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• When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Happy, Religious, Prayer

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• Don't look to anyone for your needs,
  for the One who created you,
  waters you.

  Rumi

  Water, Needs, Looks

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• To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Life, Islamic

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• Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Soul

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• When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Trust, God

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• If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Death, Religious, Islamic

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• To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Islamic, Fighting, Desire

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

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it

  Al-Kindi

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Truth

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