The Internet Islamic Art Database | Library of Islamic Art and Quotes

“If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions.

Waleed Basyouni

“Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.

Yasmin Mogahed

“You lost hope because you saw only your sins, but could not see what was greater: His mercy. You felt trapped because you saw only the storm, but could not see what was stronger: His refuge.

Yasmin Mogahed

“When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly—but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Increasing your worship increases your health, wealth and quality of life. Doors will open, illness averted and tranquility will reign your life.

Yahya Adel Ibrahim

“If Allah wants well for a slave, He strips away from his heart the ability to see his own good deeds and speaking about them with his tongue, and preoccupies him with seeing his own sin, and it continues to remain in front of his eyes until he enters Jannah.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Rumi

“He has afflicted you
From every direction
In order to pull you back
To the Directionless.

Rumi

“Invoke Him (Allah) with deeds, not words, for deeds are real and will save you in the afterlife.

Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

“Oh Allah I ask you for a mercy, oh Allah I ask you for a love that lasts, oh Allah I ask you for a compassionate contentment and a good heart, oh Allah there is no mercy except through You, from You, and for You.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The artist seeks beauty, the thinker seeks truth, the revolutionary seeks justice, the Sufi seeks Allah. They differ in their appearances, but in reality they do not differ, because Truth, Justice, Creativity and Beauty are all names of Allah.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

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