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“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is ‘none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.’ The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

“Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.

Nouman Ali Khan

“I don’t smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can’t even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

Muhammad Ali (American Muslim Boxer)

“The reward of every deed is known, except for the reward of patience, which will be like heavy rain.

Suleiman ibn Qasim al-Eid

“When Muhammad ibn Sireen was in debt, he was overwhelmed with grief because of it, and said: I know that this grief is because of a sin which I did 40 years ago. ” (It was asked): What was it?! He said: “40 years ago I called a man: Ya muflis! (O bankrupt one).

Muhammad ibn Sireen

“Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“‎Sins need to be burnt, either with the pain of regret in this world or with the hellfire in the hereafter.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Laziness in performing the prayer is a sign that the heart does not long after Allah SWT.

Khalid Yasin

“Don't you see that the lion is silent and yet feared, while the dog barks constantly and is despised?

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Blessed is the person who is so busy fixing his or her own faults, that they don’t have time to look at the faults of others.

Wisam Sharieff

“Hatred in your heart for others is always weakness.

al-Habib Ali al-Jifri

“The point of your prayer is to converse with your Lord in intimacy.

Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili

“Do not look to those above you. Look to those below you, as it will be more likely to remind you of the favors Allah has bestowed upon you. (Prophet Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him)

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Muhammad Ali (American Muslim Boxer)

“Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.

Nouman Ali Khan

“There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.”

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi

“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“People are sad at the death of the first man who walked on the moon. But me, I'll always be sad at the loss of the man who split the moon.

Yasir Qadhi

“Sins to a heart are like oil drops on a cloth—unless you wash it immediately and vigorously, it will permanently stain.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“To my daughters and sisters: Don’t fall for his words, fall for his actions.

Waleed Basyouni