Islamic Quotes

“Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Salah is something we squeeze into our day, when we find time—if that. Our ‘lives’ ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Reflecting upon this incident scholars have explained that the process of going from fifty to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Dont grieve at the fall. The ground is where humility lives. And humility waters the garden of ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Dear nafs, I want to go to war with you and win.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don’t let your definition of success, failure, or self-worth be anything other than your ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“How can we hope to find constancy if what we hold on to is inconstant and perishing? In the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Seek the help of people—but realize that it is not the people (or even your own self) that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And if there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations. But herein lay my fatal ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“After years of falling into the same pattern of disappointments and heartbreak, I finally began ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And pain is a pointer to our attachments. That which makes us cry, that which causes us most ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Our weight was only meant to be carried by God. We are told in the Quran: “…whoever rejects ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Fasting is all about detachment. It is the detachment from food, drink, sexual intimacy, vain ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Five times a day we must pull away from the dunya to focus on our Creator and ultimate purpose. ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If there is anything—or anyone—other than God, that we could never give up, then we have a ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Before you can fill any vessel, you must first empty it. The heart is a vessel. And like any ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“By Allah I don’t fear for you poverty, but I fear that the world would be abundant for you as ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“What relationship do I have with this world? I am in this world like a rider who halts in the ...

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Like the ocean’s water entering the boat, the moment that we let the dunya enter our hearts, ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Detachment [from Dunya] is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

“As long as the ocean’s water remains outside the ship, the ship will continue to float and be ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“This worldly life, the dunya, is just like the ocean. And our hearts are the ships. We can use ...

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Yasmin Mogahed

“With every delayed or missed prayer, a hidden battle is being waged: The battle of shaytan. By ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“There is one common denominator for every individual who lives a life full of sin. Whether that ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The only sad part of finding the straight path is when you lose it. There are many ways to ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The experience of Prophet Yunus `alayhi sallatu wa sallam (may Allah send his peace and ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Every time you run after, seek, or petition something weak or feeble (which, by definition, is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“When what you hold on to is strong, you too become strong, and with that strength comes the ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“But if having a child or a particular person in our life is our reason for being, something is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“As human beings, we are created with a particular nature (fitrah). That fitrah is to recognize ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Everything in this life is a test. Allah says in the Qur’an: “It is He who created death ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The beauty of the tests of Allah (swt) is that after notifying us that they’re coming, He ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Who are we acting for? Who is testing us? Who is watching, really? CNN, C-Span, the American ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Jihaad (striving) against the soul has four stages: Firstly: To strive in learning guidance and the religion of truth, without which ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“There is no doubt that the heart becomes covered with rust, just as metal dishes—silver, and their like—become rusty. So the rust ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“One of the Salaf (Pious Predecessors) said: “Indeed a servant commits a sin by which he enters Paradise; and another does a good deed ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“There are six stages to knowledge: Firstly: Asking questions in a good manner. Secondly: Remaining quiet and listening attentively. ...

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And so in the heart of such a believer is a sort of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Everything changes. So if you don't like something today, just wait. It'll change tomorrow.

Yasmin Mogahed

“For those who make Allah their primary concern, there is only peace, because whatever happens ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“And when such people feel trapped by life, by financial hardship, by pain, by loneliness, by ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“But, for the ones who focus on Allah, the dunya comes to them, and Allah puts contentment in ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“If money is the focus, you will find that no matter how much money you have, you will always ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The more we run after the dunya, the more it runs away from us.

Yasmin Mogahed

“The foundation of Islam is tawheed (Oneness). But tawheed is not just about saying that God is ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The more we chase wealth, ironically, the more poverty we feel.

Yasmin Mogahed

“One easy step to make the dunya stop breaking your heart: stop loving it!

Yasmin Mogahed

“Only God could save me from my greatest enemy: myself.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Sometimes pain teaches what pleasure never could.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“All of this: The sadness, accidents, smiles, peace, pain, love, loss, and sacrifice: it’s not ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Even the worst people can change, so always be the better of the two in any dispute, and you ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“Attachments are the chains that bind us to the earth. It only hurts because of them. Find freedom.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Don’t advocate on behalf of your nafs when addressing Allah. Advocate on behalf of Allah when ...

Yasmin Mogahed

“The composing of books is more effective than building in recording the accomplishments of the passing ages and centuries. For there is ...

Al-Jahiz

“Imam Abu Hanifa was known for his scholarship and worship, but also for his sense of humor. Once, a man asked: "O Imam! When I take ...

Imam Abu Hanifah

“The spots of perfume disappear, but its fragrance remains. So too does a good deed disappear, ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Never cut off the possibility of reconciliation with someone whom you've fought with, for one ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and ...

Yasir Qadhi

“After my khutbah today, a 93-year old man walked up to me asking if he had to fast. When I told ...

Yasir Qadhi

“When you fear a person, you are driven away from him; when you fear Allah, you are driven ...

Yasir Qadhi

“A good teacher teaches his students to respect him; a great teacher teaches them to disagree ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Our bodies easily face Makkah when we pray, but the real question is whether our hearts turn to ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Saying, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake," sincerely is one of the best ways to show you are as ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Always being sincere to the values you believe in gains not only the support of friends, but ...

Yasir Qadhi

“You can either sit down and be depressed by the darkness of the night, or stand up and ...

Yasir Qadhi

“As every day goes by, realize that a part of you goes with it.

Yasir Qadhi

“I don't care how poor someone thinks he is - if he has a loving family, he is rich beyond measure.

Yasir Qadhi

“It never ceases to amaze me how ungrateful we are to Allah's blessings, and how much He ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Whoever turns his heart to Allah, Allah responds by turning the people's hearts towards him.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

“Remembering that I'll inevitably leave this world always pushes me to do more while I'm still here.

Yasir Qadhi

“Nothing matures someone faster than becoming a parent.

Yasir Qadhi

“One praise of Allah is more precious than the whole world because the reward of that praise ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Those who strive to make others happy always find it themselves.

Yasir Qadhi

“Teenagers don't realize that, a few decades from now, they too will be just as ignorant and ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The modern world promotes the pathological pursuit of physical pleasure; Islam promotes prayer, ...

Yasir Qadhi

“We count on our fingers the number of times we glorify God; if only we would also keep count of ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Anger is like holding on to a burning ember wanting to throw it at someone - you end up burning ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The way to be successful in the end, is to turn to Allah at the beginning.

Yasir Qadhi

“Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The trials of life serve an essential purpose: they remind us of the frailty of our lives and ...

Yasir Qadhi

“The more you love something, the more it has the potential to hurt you (such as spouse, ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Humility is a necessary fruit of knowledge.

Yasir Qadhi

“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know either everything about it, or ...

Yasir Qadhi

“Omar bin Abdul Aziz told his students, "You should preach to others by your silence." They asked, "How?!" He replied, "By your manners."

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one whom you give to your charity.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.

Ibn Taymiyyah

“Hate your worst enemy with a little less passion - he might be your best friend one day.