Quotes About God’s Kindness and Mercy

“From the perfection of Allah’s ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Allah is so merciful to us that even though this life is a test, He has allowed us to enjoy what is permissible of it to ease our journey back to Him.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“When it comes to doing good, some of us are hesitant. ‘I am such a sinner!’ We may think, ‘Will Allah really appreciate the pathetic deeds that I do when I commit such horribly bad deeds?’ Allah (swt) says, “Surely our Lord is indeed Ever-Forgiving, Appreciative”(Qur’an, 35:34), and “He is most forgiving, most appreciative.” (Qur’an, 35:30). This gives us the reassurance that even if we commit sinful deeds, we can return to Allah and He will, insha’Allah (God willing) forgive us, while rewarding us for the good.

Jinan Bastaki

“Sometimes we lose hope in turning to God and asking for His help because we feel like we have done too much wrong. And yet think of a child who has just angered his mother and immediately after trips and falls on the stairs. Even if that child had just angered his mother to tears, the moment he falls and cries for help, she runs to him. This is human mercy. And God is infinitely more merciful than a mother is to her child. So, do you think—no matter what you’ve done—when you’re falling and cry out to the *most* merciful…He wouldn’t come save you?

Yasmin Mogahed

“So we may live in this world, and have all the goods and possessions of deception that anyone could dream of, but have completely failed at the object of our existence. And if the object of our existence is, as Allah tells us, only to serve Him (51:56), then it would follow that only that which brought us closer to that end, would be a blessing, while that which took us away from that end would be the greatest calamity – no matter what those things were. And so it may be that the loss of everything dear to us is in fact the greatest blessing from Allah. If that loss brings us closer to the very purpose of our creation, what greater blessing could there be?

Yasmin Mogahed

“My God how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“Be watchful—the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Rumi

“My dear son, entertain hopes of mercy from Allah, but let not your hopes make you bold in committing sins.

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

“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

“Some of the Salaf (righteous predecessors) said: The bounties of Allah have come to us in numbers we can't count, even though we disobey [Allah] often, and we don't know which one to thank Allah for: the beautiful things He sends, or the ugly things [that we do] that He hides.

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“All blessings come in a package. With every blessing comes a test.

Yasmin Mogahed

“What if Your blessings come through raindrops, what if Your healing comes through tears, what if 1000 sleepless nights are what it takes to know You are near?

Yasmin Mogahed

“When I pretend to be strong, no one sees my hidden tears except Allah. When I’m sad and need a shoulder to cry on, no one supports me but Allah. Pleasing a human is very difficult, pleasing Allah is the easiest. People sometimes punish me for mistakes I have not done, Allah ignores and excuses the ones that I did. This is Allah, The Greatest, The Most Almighty, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful, and all praise belongs to Him.

Tariq Ramadan

“Even my falling on my face in the mud was from His mercy...lest I forget where I came from, and to where I am going.

Yasmin Mogahed

“And if He bars against you all ways and passages, He will show you a secret way, which no man knows.

Rumi

“Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

Yasmin Mogahed

“It never ceases to amaze me how ungrateful we are to Allah's blessings, and how much He continues to give us despite our ungratefulness.

Yasir Qadhi

“Problems afflict the pious and the impious. Its how one deals with them that decides whether they are blessings in disguise or punishments.

Yasir Qadhi

“O Allah! Ours sins are sacrilegious in light of Your Blessings, and were it not for Your Love and Mercy, we would not merit anything!

Yasir Qadhi

“If the people who worry about what they don't have started counting the riches they do have, they would stop worrying.

Yasir Qadhi

“We are quick to question Divine Wisdom when a misfortune falls on us, yet never question the Wisdom of a blessing given to us.

Yasir Qadhi

“Falling sick is a blessing in disguise: it causes you to come closer to Allah, and allows you to appreciate the blessings of health.

Yasir Qadhi

“Iblees (Satan) name comes from the root بلس (balasa) which means to give up hope or to despair, because he despaired in the mercy of God. Thinking that you’ve slipped up or intentionally sinned so much that Allah can’t and won’t forgive you isn’t real talk, it’s satanic.

Abdel Rahman Murphy

“One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it.

Yasir Qadhi

“The most precious Divine blessings are almost always the most unappreciated: faith, health, and family.

Yasir Qadhi

“Is it not amazing how numerous and frequent are our sins, and yet still Allah continues to overlook and shower His Mercy and Bounty on us?

Yasir Qadhi

“O Allah whatever blessing I or any of Your creation have risen upon, is from You alone without partner so for You is all praise and all thanks.

Waleed Basyouni

“It is impossible to disobey Allah without using His very blessings to sin against Him.

Yasir Qadhi

“Despair not from your Lord's blessings, If He had wished that you reach the hellfire eternally He would not have inspired your heart towards Him.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“…We should use His gifts in His way and in His cause. No one likes for their gifts to be cheapened. If Allah (swt) has given you a gift, do not use it for what He dislikes. If we do that, the gift in question becomes a test that we will be held accountable for.

Jinan Bastaki

“When He gives, He shows you His Kindness, when He deprives, He shows you His Power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.

Ibn 'Ata Allah al-Iskandari

“So the servant is always in need of his Lord, from every perspective. This is because He is the object of his worship, and the source of all of his help. So no one can bring him any good except Him, and nothing can better the situation of the servant except His worship. And on top of all of this, the servant is sinning, and there is no way that he can avoid this. So he is always in need, sinning, and he is in need of the One who always Forgives, the One who is Ever-Merciful. The One who always Forgives (al-Ghafoor) will Forgive his sins, and the Ever-Merciful will show him Mercy and bless him and be kind to him. So the servant is eternally between the blessings of his Lord and the sins of his soul.

Ibn Taymiyyah

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