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“The companions of the Prophet were extremely eager and insistent on knowing the best of deeds, so that they could become closer to Allah with these deeds, and for this reason their questions were in great numbers regarding the best among good deeds and the most loved actions to Allah, as in the questions of ibn Mas`ud, Abi Dhar, and others, and the Prophet's answer to their questions. For this reason in ahadith (the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) we read a lot of "the best of deeds is…" and "the most beloved deeds to Allah is this and this."

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“The most thieving among people: Those who steal their salah, not finishing its ruku`s and sujoods properly, and the most miserly of people: those who do not reply to a salam.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“Since these organs [the face and limbs] are in the most direct contact with wrong-doings, the stains of sins are most attached to them compared to other parts of the body, and therefore the Judge of judges [Allah SWT] required that wudu' consist of washing these parts, to ensure their cleanliness and purity from physical stains and the stains of sins and wrong-doings.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

“I've never seen an act of israf [extravagance, wastefulness, or immoderacy and extremism], except with somebody's rights getting trampled beside it.

Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa`

“And I have seen sincere Muslim youth who studied at colleges of medicine, engineering, agriculture, or literature, or at other liberal arts and scientific colleges, and who were doing well and even very well, but then left to dedicate themselves to the work of dawah [calling people to Islam] and guiding others, even though their work in their specialties are of the foroodh al-kifayah [jobs that are obligatory on a certain percentage of every Muslim community according to Islamic law, for example every Muslim community should have enough physicians, engineers, etc.], jobs that if not done the entire community is harmed, even though they can make of their specialties an `ibadah (good deed) and jihad if done properly, with the right intent, and with regard to Allah's laws.

And if every Muslim left his or her job today then what would happen to Muslim interests? The Prophet ﷺ was sent when his Companions worked at various occupations, and he never asked anyone of them to leave his job to dedicate himself to dawah.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.

Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss)

“When you hear Allah say: "O you who believe!" then listen very carefully to His call, for you will not hear anything other than a good that He enjoins upon you, or an evil He wants you to avoid, or a combination of both.

Imam Ibn Abd as-Salam (`Izzaddeen `abd al-Aziz bin `abd as-Salam)

“Even acts of pure worship in the shar` (Allah's law) have [deep] purposes, and for this reason the Quran mentions the reasons behind these acts, for example the salah "restrains from shameful and unjust deeds" [Quran 29:45] and the zakah "to cleanse them and purify them thereby" [Quran 9:103] and siyam [fasting] "to acquire fear and mindfulness of God" [Quran 2:183] and the haj [pilgrimage to Makkah] "so that they might experience much that shall be of benefit to them, and that they might extol the name of God" [Quran 22:28]

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“There is nothing one of which can be superior to a thousand of them except when it comes to humans.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“One of the things that shows us the precedence of knowledge over action is that the first verse revealed of the Quran was "Read!" [Quran 96:1], and reading is they key to knowledge, and afterwards verses were sent down regarding actions: "O you [in your solitude] enfolded! Arise and warn! And your Lord's greatness glorify! And your clothing purify!" [Quran 74:1-4]

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“Whoever acts without knowledge, what he corrupts is greater than what he fixes.

Umar ibn Abdul Aziz

“Life in the shade of the Quran is a blessing. A blessing that no one knows other than the one who has tasted it. A blessing that elevates one's life, makes it whole, and purifies it.

Sayyid Qutb

“And alhadmulillah... God has bestowed upon me the favor of living in the shade of the Quran for a period of time, in which I tasted of His blessings things I had never tasted before in my life. I tasted in it this blessing that elevates life, makes it whole, and purifies it.

Sayyid Qutb

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