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“Forgive others not because they deserve it, but because you deserve some peace of mind and desire the forgiveness of your Lord.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Regret is a form of punishment itself.

Nouman Ali Khan

“Ask Allah for help against your evil whims and desires just as you ask Him for help against your enemies.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“The Quran refers to “those who followed him in the hour of difficulty.” How beautiful the Quran’s expressions are. It refers to difficulty as an hour that passes by quickly and then is over, not as something that overwhelms one’s whole life.

Salman al-Ouda

“Whoever believes he can totally avoid people’s scorn and criticism is mad. Whoever examines matters carefully and disciplines himself to rely on the facts would enjoy people’s criticizing him more than praising him. This is because if they praise him justly and he becomes aware of their praise, it might make him vainglorious, and this would devalue his virtues. If they praise him unjustly and he becomes aware of their praise, he would attain happiness from that which is false, and this would be a grave fault.

On the other hand, if people criticize him justly and he becomes aware of their criticism, it might help him to avoid that for which he is criticized; and this would be a great fortune, which only the faulty would forsake. If they criticize him unjustly and he becomes aware of their criticism and perseveres, he would become more virtuous by his perseverance and forbearance.

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi

“The more you care how you appear to Allah, the less you’ll care how you appear to people.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Your Saying “God is the Greatest” does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it. Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God but God.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“You have to leave much of which you may desire in this world to get all that you desire in the hereafter.

Abdulbary Yahya

“The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to more negligent in other issues of faith.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“When there is money in your hand and not in your heart, it will not harm you even if it is a lot; and when it is in your heart, it will harm you even if there is none in your hands.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah