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“Stick to the truth even if the truth kills you.

“Place the affairs of your brother when they reach you upon the best of interpretations until there comes to you clarity which overcomes that. Do not think ill of a statement which comes from another Muslim if you can find a good interpretation for it.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, does not have kinship, and therefore, He does not grant anyone special status, favors, or exemptions, except with regards to obeying His command and abstaining from what He forbids.

Abu Bakr as-Siddiq

“The heart is the chief and it controls man. We must therefore consider the heart, examine it and purify it--perhaps, it contains impurities. Man might pretend to perform good deeds through the limbs but there might be in his heart this corrupt impurity that leads one to the fire in the end.

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“Whoever considers the nearness of death in his heart, will see what he has and owns as being abundant.

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“When someone thanks you for doing something for them it’s okay to feel good about it, as long as you don’t forget to thank and praise Allah, for it is He who gave you the ability to do what you did.

Saad Tasleem

“Sometimes the Almighty creates situations of distress to help us recognize Him, turn to Him, realize our wrongdoings, and become sincere.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“With good manners, you will understand knowledge. With knowledge, you will correct your actions. With actions, you will attain wisdom. With wisdom, you will comprehend zuhd (renouncing of the worldly life) and be granted it. With zuhd, you will abandon the worldly life. With abandonment of the worldly life, you will long for the hereafter. And with longing of the hereafter, you will achieve Allaah’s contentment.

al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi

“The Prophet (saw) meant that we should be kind to those who are close to becoming Muslim, and to not make things difficult on them at the beginning. The same is true for discouraging people from sins, it should be done gradually, for when something is easy at the beginning, it will become beloved to those entering it, and they will easily take it to heart, and it often leads to an increase (in devotion) rather than a decrease.

al-Hafiz ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

“Ibn al-Musayyib, the preeminent tabi`i, rarely gave a fatwa without saying: "O God! Please make me safe, and make people safe from me!"

Ibn al-Musayyib

“Whoever gives fatwas (definitive answers) to every (religious) question people put to him is indeed a mad man. (i.e. people should acknowledge their limits of knowledge rather than behaving like they know everything)

Ibn Abbas

“The one who acts without knowledge is like a wayfarer without a way, and such a person ruins more than he fixes. Therefore seek knowledge, in a way that doesn't harm your worship, and seek worship, in a way that doesn't harm your knowledge seeking, for there was a nation that sought worship and neglected knowledge, until they went out with their swords against the ummah (nation) of Muhammad peace be upon him. Had they sought knowledge, it wouldn't have led them to what they did.

al-Hasan al-Basri

“When God intends good for someone He gives Him knowledge of the deen (religion).

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Imam al-Bukhari titled a chapter in the Knowledge volume of his collection of sahih traditions "Knowledge Before Words and Deeds". The scholars who explained al-Bukhari's works say that by using this title he wanted to show that knowledge is a condition for the correctness of speech and actions, for these two cannot be judged without it, since knowledge is prior to them and determines the correctness of intentions and the correctness of actions. They said: This is what al-Bukhari wanted to say, so that it does not occur to people's minds--due to the common saying that knowledge is useless without action--that knowledge is of little value, and so that they may not neglect the importance of seeking it.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“There is no good in you if you do not say it, and there is no good in us if we do not listen to it. (Umar ibn al-Khattab on advice and criticism directed at rulers and leaders)

Umar ibn al-Khattab

“Abu Ali Al-Fudhail ibn Iyaz was asked about "the best deeds" in "who among you have the best deed" (Quran 11:7). He said: "The best of deeds: the most sincere and most correct." They said: "What are the most sincere and most correct deeds?" He said: "Indeed God does not accept a deed if it is not sincere and correct, for if it is correct but insincere it won't be accepted, and if it is sincere but incorrect it won't be accepted, and sincerity is that the deed is done for Allah, and correctness is that it is upon the sunnah (traditions of the Prophet PBUH).

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad (Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz)

“Whoever does not leave sinful words and acts [when fasting], God has no need for him to leave his food and drink.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“If you ask God for Paradise, ask Him for al-Firadaws, for it is at the central heights of Paradise, and above it lies the Throne of the Most Gracious.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“It is said about him [Umar ibn al-Khattab] that one day he was sitting with his friends in a large house and he said to his friends: "Make wishes." One of them said: "I wish I had the fill of this house silver dirhams so that I may spend it in the way of Allah." Another wishes that he had gold the fill of the house to spend for the sake of Allah. But Umar said: I wish I had the fill of this house men like Abi Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Muadh ibn Jabal, and Salim the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifah, so that I may use them in the service of Allah.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

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