Islamic Quotes - Page 8

• To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

  Timothy Winter

  Wisdom, Victory, Nafs

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• Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

  Bernard Lewis

  Criticism, World, Levels

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• Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

  Avicenna

  Wisdom, Prayer, Mean

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• Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
  Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
  Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
  Laughter always follow tears
  Blessed are those who understand
  Life blossoms wherever water flows
  Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Laughter, Blessed

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• I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.

  Umar

  Wisdom, Offering, Advice

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Pride, Fire

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• What can my enemies do to me?
  I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
  If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
  Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
  To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
  And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Religious

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• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised.
  The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.
  The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts.
  Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Wisdom, Mean, Effort

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• Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah's is the most regular and constant even though it were little.

  Muhammad

  Positive, God, Entering

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• Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief

  Harun Yahya

  Wisdom, Being Alone, Men

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• O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
  From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
  My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.

  Busiri

  Wisdom, Justice, Secret

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• Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Grief, Eye

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• Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wisdom, Religious, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

  Muhammad

  Tree, Comfort, Goes On

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• Most people don't pray until they're in trouble.
  When people need help they pray a lot.
  But after they get what they want, they slow down.
  If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean.
  Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wisdom, Men, People

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• In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race, color, and gender as a basis of distinction amongst fellowmen. It enshrines piety as the sole criteria for judging humankind.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Teaching, Race, Color

  Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan. Directorate of Films & Publications (2008). “Speeches and Statements: Oct. 1993-Nov. 1996”

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• Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Religious, Mean, Exercise

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• We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

  Rand Paul

  Christian, Heart, Cutting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Family, Marriage, Couple

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• Emancipation can only come from within; it cannot be dictated by someone else. A law banning the wearing of headscarves changes nothing, except perhaps external appearance. Naturally, Islamic feminism must also include the right to education, to work and the freedom to select one's own husband.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Husband, Law, Feminism

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.

  Talal Asad

  Cutting, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

  Muhammad

  Muslim Faith, Holy Prophet, Paradise

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• Be with Allah,
  You will find Allah with you.

  Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi

  Wisdom

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• O Lord...
  Once I wanted You so much
  I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
  And now
  I am not even worthy to be let in

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Past, House

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