Islamic Quotes

“Every one of us is tested in different ways. For some of us, it might be the excess of wealth, ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The lowest of the levels of adab (respectful behavior) towards Allah (exalted be He) is for the ...

Sayyid Qutb

“God loves sincere return to Him and He forgives and purifies. The Prophet (SAW) himself ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Try to reconnect the way you deal with God with the way you serve the people as the best among ...

Tariq Ramadan

“Only the one who loses the gift of Allaah, (only he) realizes how valuable it is.

Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

“He breaks you, to build you. Deprives you, to give you. This pain in your heart was created to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

““Do not love this world, Allah would love you and do not have a longing for whatever people ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Do not exaggerate in praising me as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“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 ...

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, ...

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Salman al-Ouda

“Ibn `Umar heard a man wishing for death and said: "Don't wish for death for you are already ...

Abdullah ibn `Umar

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to Jannah...not going all the way, and not ...

Waleed Basyouni

“Whoever has complete faith that Allah will replace everything he gives away with something better (in this life or the next), will ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“Whoever chooses a person, whoever it may be, and constantly and steadfastly agrees with him in speech and action, then he is of: "those ...

Ibn Taymiyyah

“I fear for you two things: Putting all of your hopes in dunya [worldly life], and following your desires, for putting your hopes in ...

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“The people who have knowledge of Allah have agreed that sins done in solitude are the root of retrogression (going back to a life of ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“The discomfort of obedience to Allah will leave and its rewards will remain, and the pleasure of disobeying Allah leaves and its ...

Ibn al-Jawzi

“Verily, everything besides Allah is of no value.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Just as the rooh (soul) gives life to the body, the Qur’an gives life to hearts and souls. With it, the heart lives to rectify its ...

Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa`di

“What you think, if others were to somehow be able to hear it, should not be shameful.

Abdulbary Yahya

“Never underestimate the power of prayer! Constant prayer, with full conviction, without loss of hope no matter how prolonged it may be, ...

Mufti Ismail Menk

“Look at a chaste poor man…nobody talks to him. People greet him so warily as if fearing that he may pass poverty to them. But see how ...

Sufyan ath-Thawri

“Your speech will tell what is in your heart.

Imam Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“If the heart is sick, the forbidden becomes attractive and obedience of Allah becomes something you look at with contempt.

Ibn al-Jawzi

“The believer does not curse.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik heard the sound of thunder and was bothered by it, so `Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz said: O leader of the believers, ...

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“The first Sunnah that the Muslims abandoned was coming early to Jumu'ah.

Imam az-Zarkashi

“Who says nothing is impossible. I’ve seen many people doing nothing for years.

Waleed Basyouni

“Some of the Salaf (righteous predecessors) said: The bounties of Allah have come to us in numbers we can't count, even though we ...

Anonymous Author

“I borrowed a pen in Ash-Sham [The Levant]. When I came back to Marwu [Merv in Turkmenistan] I saw that I still had it, so I went back ...

Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

“Sins are wounds, and maybe a wound that could lead to death, and a servant is not afflicted with a punishment greater than a hard hard, ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“I ask Allah for steadfastness on the deen until death (those who say our Lord is Allah and then are steadfast); those who say "Our Lord ...

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“The human soul will not leave the dunya except with three regrets: that he didn't satiate himself with enjoyment of what he had ...

al-Hasan al-Basri

“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 ...

Abdullah ibn Masud

“Whoever smiles at his brother's committing of a sin has betrayed him.

Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad (Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz)

“My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Imam ash-Shafi`i

“Of the signs of the wretchedness and misery of the servant [of Allah]: That whenever his ...

Waleed Basyouni

“Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy upon him) was asked: Which one is better for the servant [of Allah], istighfar [seeking ...

Ibn Taymiyyah

“What the servant [of Allah] dislikes is better for him than what he likes, because what he dislikes motivates him to make du`a, while ...

Sufyan bin 'Uyainah

“By the amount that you worry about dunya [worldly life], the concern for akhirah [the Hereafter] will leave your heart, and by the ...

Malik ibn Dinar

“I visited Singapore and saw stores with Arabic names, belonging to the Arab merchants who came ...

Waleed Basyouni

“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 ...

Abdullah ibn Masud

“It is reported that al-Ahnaf ibn Qays was once told: “You are an aged elder; fasting would enfeeble you.” But he replied: “By ...

Al-Ahnaf ibn Qays

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“The realest things in this life are the things you can't see. If you can see it, its probably ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The worldly body is a prison for the believer, not because this life is miserable for the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The one who does not believe that there is any place better—who believes that this world is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate,’ we’ll do ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The first confounding of Iblis [Satan] on people: He prevented them from knowledge, because knowledge is a light, if their lights go ...

Ibn al-Jawzi

“Pepsi ad: 'Live for now'... Groupon ad: 'You might only live once'... Sprite ad: 'Obey your ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The problem with the youth of today is that, as soon as they learn something new, they think that they know everything.

Imam al-Albani

“You want a real jihad? Smile to your parents when you come home. Pray on time. Control your ...

Wisam Sharieff

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

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“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 ...

Abdullah ibn Masud

“If you're reading about people finishing the Quran multiple times in Ramadan and you're feeling low because you struggle to complete it ...

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“Verily the one who recites the Qur’an beautifully, smoothly, and precisely, he will be in the ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“A silent dua is seventy times better than a loud one.

Ibn Abbas

“Whoever reads a letter from the Book of Allah will receive a hasanah (good deed) from it, and ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“If you see an unbeliever, say, “I don’t know, maybe he will become a Muslim, and his life will be sealed with the best of deeds, ...

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

“Never mind what Allah has told you; what He has not told you is even greater.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“The body has many needs. But the soul has only one: to be with God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't curse the emptiness. Its there for a reason. It is a wake up call to seek and find Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

“I'm traveling now, as I have been since the day I was born, to You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“All that you love in this life is only what is a glimpse of the next.The beauty, the pleasure, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“I seek refuge in You from ever seeking refuge in other than You.

Yasmin Mogahed

“People wonder what goes wrong after the wedding day. I think its when giving turns to expecting ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When Allah blesses us with someone that we love, we forget that Allah is the source of that ...