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“The person who is seeking the truth, one evidence will be enough for him. A person who is upon their desires, a thousand clues will still not be clear for him.

Imam al-Albani

“Try to pray tahajjud [voluntary night prayer] at least once a week and you will find very big differences in your life.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice. Humanity is threatened not only by nuclear annihilation but by the absence of values. The West has lost its vitality and Marxism has failed. At this crucial and bewildering juncture, the turn of Islam and the Muslim community has arrived.

Sayyid Qutb

“You’re a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you’re not anymore.

Tariq Ramadan

“…Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live on amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them back to life as well..

Sayyid Qutb

“It is impossible to live, to bear witness, to pray, to fast, to make the pilgrimage alone, apart from other people and thinking only of oneself. To be with God is to be with other people: to bear the faith is to bear responsibility for social commitment at every moment. The teaching that must be understood from zakat could not be more explicit: to possess is to have the duty to share. It is impossible shamelessly to accumulate possessions in the name of personal freedom when it leads to exploitation and social injustices; it is impossible, too, to forget the interests of society as a whole and consider only one’s own. Of course, people are free, but they are responsible for this freedom before God and other people. This responsibility is undeniably moral: according to this morality, to be free means to protect the freedom and dignity of others.

Tariq Ramadan

“When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa`di

“So what does our deen (religion) want? In a nutshell, what Allah wants from us is to constantly try to get better. Not to become perfect, but to get better. Get better than what? Get better than who? Get better than yourself from yesterday.

We just have to constantly try to improve. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if we’re talking about ourselves as teachers, da’ies (preachers and advocates), worshipers, as Muslims in any capacity — all our deen wants is constant effort to improve.

If we internalize that, then it gives us many benefits. One of the most important benefits of that realization is, we will never be satisfied with where we are.

Nouman Ali Khan