Islamic Quotes - Page 21

• Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  Mean, World, Praying

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• I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say. We have had a lot of problems where you look at San Bernardino, you look at Orlando, you look at the World Trade Center, you look at so many different things. You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France.

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Cutting, Weekend

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• From the standpoint of a Middle Eastern citizen, Americans look like a bully forcing our way of life on the Islamic way of life. The notion of purity is very important in Islam, and a lot of the negative warlike actions taken against us have to do with our physical presence in the Middle East. Osama bin Laden was trying to get the American, or protesting the American military presence in Saudi Arabia. It's not surprising that our strong presence in Iraq has produced a wave of resistance anger, extreme anger in some cases, and a permissive atmosphere that allows these people to go undetected.

  John Updike

  Strong, Military, Taken

  Source: www.today.com

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• Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
  Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests,
  Of monsters in the ocean.
  
  You are the Just who knows no change,
  The Balance that can never swerve,
  The Eternal which never passes away.
  
  The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers.
  Your Door is open to all who call upon You.
  
  Each love is now alone with his beloved.
  And I am alone with You.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Kings, Stars

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• 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

  Wisdom, Inspire, Ignorant

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• The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.

  Marmaduke Pickthall

  Wisdom, Race, Color

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• Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.

  Ibn Arabi

  Wisdom, Heart, Negativity

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• Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Garden

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• When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow
  I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
  My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness
  I found Your forgiveness to be greater

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Heart, Path

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• Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wisdom, Ocean, Moon

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• O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Giving, Enemy

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• O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Heart, Delight

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• The highest degree of love is Tatayyum (total enthrallment). The lowest degree is 'alaqah (attachment), when the heart is attached to the beloved: then comes sabahah (infatuation), when the heart is poured out: then gharam (passion), when love never leaves the heart: the nashaq (ardent love), and finally tatayyum.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Passion, Heart

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• He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Soul, Doe

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• I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
  The day You became my Friend,
  I have not slept -
  And even if You drive me from your door,
  I swear again that we will never be separated -
  Because You are alive in my heart

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Heart, Doors

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• Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Rain, Giving

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• He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself.
  Only he who combines the two proves true.

  Malik ibn Anas

  Wisdom, Law, Practice

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• In the heavens there is calmness
  and on the earth there is beauty.
  In the gardens there is freshness
  and in you there is a sign.
  In the sea there is might
  and in the air there is nourishment.
  Take from all this comfort for your soul
  and recovery for your mind.
  And do not waste your time by being unmindful,
  this will shield you from good
  and lead you to evil.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Recovery, Garden

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• If your pride leads you to boast,
  you will be doubly guilty,
  because your intelligence will have shown
  that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Pride, Guilty

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• You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Body, Greater

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• The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.

  Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Heart

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• If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Men

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• The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Heart, Journey

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• There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow.
  There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience
  No bliss for someone with no misery
  and no rest for the one with no fatigue.
  When someone is a little tired,
  he has long rest.
  When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time,
  that leads him to eternal life.
  All that the people of eternal bliss
  are in is steadfastness for a time.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Tired, Long

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• Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.

  Hasan of Basra

  Obedience, Command, Firm

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