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“Sometimes you’ll come across someone who isn’t the smartest, wealthiest, or most popular but they have the best Akhlaq (manners). Keep their company.

Abdul Nasir Jangda

“Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“How can you trust one who doesn't pray. If he abandons his Maker, what makes you think he won’t abandon you?

Mufti Ismail Menk

“The first gift we can give to our society is our self education - when you are educated, you care about yourself and your neighbours.

Tariq Ramadan

“If we were supposed to be perfect, why would God’s most emphasized attribute be His mercy and forgiveness?

Yasmin Mogahed

“If a person embraces Islam sincerely, then God shall forgive all his or her past sins, and after that starts the settlement of accounts: The reward of their good deeds will be ten times to seven hundred times for each deed, and a sinful deed will be recorded only as it is, unless God forgives it.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

Dhul-Nun al-Misri

“Fitnah continues upon the heart, except if the Deen of the slave is completely for Allah.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Don’t think of the trials in your life (‘balaa’) as just a ‘test’ in the human form. Allah is not like a professor who hands you a test, moves away and just watches from afar to see how you’ll do. Allah is our murabee—the One who raises us with more mercy than a mother raises a child. The Prophet (pbuh) tells us that when Allah wills good for someone, he sends them ‘balaa’ (trials or tests). When Allah wills good for us, He purifies us. That is why each person is tested in what they love most. In other words our greatest possible ‘competitor’ in our love for God is what is withheld or must be sacrificed. This is the purification process because it cures the heart of competitors. Why was Prophet Ibrahim (AS) asked to slaughter the most beloved thing to him? Did Allah actually want him to *kill* his son? No. He didn’t kill his son. He killed the attachment. By being willing to sacrifice what he loved most, he had slaughtered any possible competing love. Allah was raising him, purifying him and elevating him. Allah tell us, “By no means shall you attain righteousness unless you give (freely) of that which you love.” (3:92)

Yasmin Mogahed

“Whoever prefers Allah to all others, Allah will prefer him to others.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“I was told of a man from the Children of Israel who had a need that he wanted fulfilled by Allah. So, he engaged in constant worship and then asked Allah for his need.

When he did not see that his need was fulfilled, he spent the night blaming himself, saying: “O self! What is wrong with you that is preventing your need from being fulfilled?”

And he spent the night sad and holding himself to account, saying: “By Allah, the problem is not with my Lord. Rather, the problem is with myself,” and he remained in such a state of holding himself responsible until his need was finally taken care of.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah