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“He breaks you, to build you. Deprives you, to give you. This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life and to yearn more for Jannah

Yasmin Mogahed

““Do not love this world, Allah would love you and do not have a longing for whatever people have, people would love you”.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a slave. So, call me the slave of Allah and His Apostle.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Ar-Rabi` ibn Khuthaym Ath-Thawri was asked why he never criticizes any one. He said "If I'm not satisfied with myself how can I talk about others?"

Ar-Rabi` ibn Khuthaym Ath-Thawri

“Your nafs [the ego, the self] is your battlefield, therefore if you prevail over it, you will have more power over the nafs of others, and if you lose in it you will have less power over the nafs of others, therefore first try fighting it.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

Luqman al-Hakim (Luqman The Wise)

“I have never seen anyone as unjust and oppressive to myself as myself, and I've never found anyone more forbearing, tolerant, and merciful to me than Allah. There is no god but Allah, Exalted are You, I've been of the wrongdoers.

Muhammad Ibn Faqih

“Indeed I wonder at the one who drowns and with him is a lifeboat! It was said: And what is that lifeboat? He said: al-Istighfar (seeking Allah's forgiveness).

Sufyan ath-Thawri

“If it wasn't for the hardships of life the servant would have been afflicted by arrogance, self-worship, Pharoanic self-aggrandizement, and the hardness of the heart, which would have caused him to perish sooner or later.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Whoever is not deterred by the Qur'an and death, then even if the mountains were butted between his hands, he would not deter.

Al-Hasan bin Abdul Aziz al-Jarawi

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi

“I notice that so many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are.

Waleed Basyouni

“Humility is not to think less of yourself, but to think about yourself less.

Waleed Basyouni

“I love you O Lord, for when people's hearts are hard towards me I find you opening your arms so that I may return to you and I hear you promising me with a Paradise that's beyond my dreams and imagination.

Salman al-Ouda

“Ibn `Umar heard a man wishing for death and said: "Don't wish for death for you are already dead, but ask Allah for forgiveness."

Abdullah ibn `Umar

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to Jannah...not going all the way, and not starting.

Waleed Basyouni

“Whoever has complete faith that Allah will replace everything he gives away with something better (in this life or the next), will increase in giving away his wealth.

al-Hasan al-Basri

“We don't always get what we want, but if we think about it sometimes, we might find that we get what we need. I'm pleased with my Lord.

Waleed Basyouni

“The scholar who has every knowledge must not cause people to despair in Allah's mercy, and will not dare them in disobeying Allah. Making haram things halal is kufr, and despair of the mercy of Allah is kufr.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Perform good acts when you have the ability and its praise (rewards) will remain for you when the ability to do these acts leaves you, and do good when you are in power and you will be treated well, as well as when others have power over you, and make your times of ease a preparation for difficult times.

Imam al-Mawardi

“Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak was asked what he would do if after death he was given the chance to go back to life. He said: "I will go back to seek knowledge."

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

“Indeed I would rather bite an ember or grasp it until it cools down in my hand than say to something decreed by Allah "I wish it wasn't".

Abdullah ibn Masud

“If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“Whoever chooses a person, whoever it may be, and constantly and steadfastly agrees with him in speech and action, then he is of: "those who have divided their religion and become sects." [Quran 30:32]

Ibn Taymiyyah

“I fear for you two things: Putting all of your hopes in dunya [worldly life], and following your desires, for putting your hopes in dunya makes you forget about the akhirah [the Hereafter], and following your desires blocks the way of justice.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“The people who have knowledge of Allah have agreed that sins committed in solitude are the root of retrogression (going back to a life of sin), and that good deeds done in hiding are the greatest causes of steadfastness.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The discomfort of obedience to Allah will leave and its rewards will remain, and the pleasure of disobeying Allah leaves and its punishment remains.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“Verily, everything besides Allah is of no value.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Just as the rooh (soul) gives life to the body, the Qur’an gives life to hearts and souls. With it, the heart lives to rectify its affairs of the dunya (this world) and deen (Islam). Whatever is in it is a source of great good and abundant knowledge.

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa`di

“What you think, if others were to somehow be able to hear it, should not be shameful.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Never underestimate the power of prayer! Constant prayer, with full conviction, without loss of hope no matter how prolonged it may be, really does create miracles!

What seems “impossible” for us is simple for the Almighty. Many have already seen this in their lives!

We are also taught to maintain closeness to the Almighty at times of ease & then during hardship He has promised to come to our aid.

Let us not be from those who only worship when they are suffering or when their lives are chaotic.

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Look at a chaste poor man…nobody talks to him. People greet him so warily as if fearing that he may pass poverty to them. But see how the people welcome a rich man, even if he does not perform prayer. They stand up with smiling faces, and each one hopes to greet him first. Note the difference between a man who is so great as seen by God and another who does not even weigh a mosquito’s wing - but this is life.

Sufyan ath-Thawri

“Your speech will tell what is in your heart.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“If the heart is sick, the forbidden becomes attractive and obedience of Allah becomes something you look at with contempt.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“The believer does not curse.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik heard the sound of thunder and was bothered by it, so `Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz said: O leader of the believers, this is the sound of His mercy, what [would you do] about the sound of His punishment?

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“The first Sunnah that the Muslims abandoned was coming early to Jumu'ah.

Imam az-Zarkashi

“Who says nothing is impossible. I’ve seen many people doing nothing for years.

Waleed Basyouni

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