Abdullah ibn Masud Quotes

“Allah has not created in the heavens nor in the earth what is more magnificent than Ayat Al-Kursi [i.e. the Throne Verse, Quran 2:255].

Abdullah ibn Masud

“I detest that I should see a man being idle, neither occupied with anything of the work for the worldly life nor work for the hereafter.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“You never speak to a group of people something (religious) they do not understand, except that it will become a cause of fitna (trials, confusion and misunderstanding) to some of them.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“True faith is to not try to please other people by doing things which are displeasing to Allah.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Whoever loves the Quran will love Allah and His Messenger.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“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

“Abdullah ibn Masud used to say: When we missed a brother we would go to him, if he was ill we would visit him to console him, if he was busy we would help him in his work, and if he was otherwise it would just be a visit.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Ibn Masud was asked: How did you [early Muslims] greet Ramadan? He said: None of us used to dare to greet the hilal [crescent moon, the sign of the beginning of the month of Ramadan] of Ramadan with an atom of grudge in his heart for his Muslim brother.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“The one who memorises the Qur’an must be known by the nights when people are sleeping. By his days when people are eating. By his sadness when people are rejoicing. By his weeping when people are laughing. By his silence when people are indulged in vain talk. And by his humility when people are boasting.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“The most barren house is the one in which the Quran is not recited.

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Indeed, a person forgets knowledge that he had learned because of a sin that he commits.

Abdullah ibn Masud

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