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“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

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