Islamic Quotes - Page 32

• Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

  Abu Dawood

  Wisdom, Issues, Giving

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• Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

  Hasan of Basra

  Death, Wisdom, Sitting

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• Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba

  Wisdom, Fall, Mean

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• Knowledge for us means knowledge of the allowance/dispensation (rukhsa).
  As for strictness, anyone can show strictness.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Wisdom, Mean, Allowance

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• There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Men, Two

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• Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

  Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad

  Wisdom, Path, Sound

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• The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Men, Black

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• Your heart mirrors not His love,
  Rusty with your sins it is,
  Remove this rust and you shall
  Perceive how Glorious He is.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Heart, Mirrors

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• Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Sincere, Showing Off

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• Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba

  Wisdom, Heart, Dhikr

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• As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf)

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Issues, Agreement

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• You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Garden

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• The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Wisdom, Goal, Humanity

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.168, Tughra Books

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• I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
  So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
  He informed me that knowledge is a light,
  And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Light, Weakness

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• Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
  Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
  My choicest hours
  Are the hours I spend with You -
  O God, I can't live in this world
  Without remembering You

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Heart, Names

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• My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wisdom, Jobs, Hands

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• This is how you falsify reality, ... The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It's the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Reality, India, Problem

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• I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

  Akbar Ganji

  Rights, Views, Two

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• I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Wise, Atheist

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• And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Iraq, America

  "Bill Kristol's guide to falling upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Whether [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing] was a setup by the Israeli Mossad, as a Jewish friend of mine suspects, or was truly a retaliation by the Islamic fundamentalists, matters little.

  Ron Paul

  World, Littles, Matter

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• Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers", they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

  Ann Coulter

  Hate, Usa, America

  "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right". Book by Ann Coulter, 2002.

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• When I was a kid I got mad enough to want to kill somebody but as you travel the world and I'm struggling with a freedom fight against nations, you can't get enough hate in you to be mad at one man just because it's a boxing match. Never. Even Floyd Paterson, who condemned my Islamic religion and didn't want to call me Muhammad Ali and said I should've gone to the army and I should be in jail.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Struggle, Kids

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Country, Turkeys, Vision

  Source: www.slate.com

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