Quotes About Niyyah (Intention)

“If you have asked Him to purify your intentions, and you find yourself being stopped from doing many things that you love to do or be part of, consider that your purification has already started. Be grateful, not hasty in sadness.

Know that there is nothing more humbling and purifying than accepting His decree with a full and satisfied heart!

Tawfique Chowdhury

“Allah (swt) even appreciates our intention. The Prophet ﷺ describes two men: one man whom Allah has bestowed upon wealth and knowledge, and he acts upon that knowledge and gives from his wealth; and another man whom Allah has given knowledge but no wealth, and that man says, “If I had the wealth he had, I would do the same”. The Prophet ﷺ said “And they are rewarded the same”. [Ibn Majah]

Jinan Bastaki

“When one’s intention is sincere, Allaah (jalla wa ala) will suffice his needs, protect him, and guide him in his dealings with the people. However, if one adorns himself to please the people in this world, only Allaah knows what ends awaits him in the hereafter.

Umar ibn al-Khattab

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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“If knowledge is useful without actions, Allah, the Exalted, would never have dispraised the people of the book, and if actions were useful without devotion, He would never have dispraised the hypocrites.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“A believer catches his intention changing forty times a day, but a hypocrite remains on the same intention for forty years.

Yasir Qadhi

“The beauty of our religion is that the reward is dependent on the sincerity of trying, and not in the attainment of the result.

Yasir Qadhi

“Intention may not be the only thing, but it is the most important thing.

Waleed Basyouni

“How many deeds few in number have become many by way of the niyyah (intention) and how many deeds great in number have been made insignificant due to a (faulty) intention.

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

Quotes About Niyyah (Intention)

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