BismillahirRahmanirRahim
What can my enemies do to me?
I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].
- Ibn Taymiyyah qs
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
- Jalal'uddin al-Rumi qs
Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life;
without light and shade no picture is clear.
- Inayat Khan
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
- Jalal'uddin al-Rumi qs
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God,
he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
- Hakim
He who wishes that people always remember him with goodness is neither
God-fearing nor sincere.
- Shaykh Ibrahim ibn Adham qs
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own.
Give it time, and it will not be moved,
even with a crane
- Muslehuddin Saadi al-Shiraz
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
- Jalal'uddin al-Rumi qs
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper
If you have no room to entertain an elephant
- Muslehuddin Saadi al-Shiraz
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the
commoners among the people
- 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (radiAllahu 'anhu)
And God wants to turn unto you in His mercy, whereas those who follow [only]
their own lusts want you to drift far away from the right path. God wants to
lighten your burdens: for man has been created weak.
- Qur'an [4:27-28]
Whoever makes a show of his good deeds so that people will respect him, Allah
Ta'ala will show what is truly in his heart.
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
[Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim]
Better to look at the defects hidden within you
than to look for the unseen worlds that are veiled from you.
- Shaykh Ibn Ata'illah qs
If your busy with yourself now,
you will be busy with yourself then.
If you are busy with God now,
you will be with Him then.
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
- Imam Shafi' (rahimullah)
Imam Bukhari (rahimullah) was so pious that he could truthfully say "I have
never told a lie"
What you love to have with you in the Hereafter you should advance today,
and what you hate to have with you, you should abandon today.
- Salman ibn Dinar (radiAllahu 'anhu)
We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are those who spend
their time talking about the sins of others.
- Muhammad ibn Sireen (radiAllahu 'anhu)
When you want to mention your companion's faults, remember your own faults
-'Abd Allah ibn 'Abbas (radiAllahu 'anhu)
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you,
and patience against what you covet.
- 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (radiAllahu 'anhu)
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
- Mahatma Gandhi
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of
non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government
of Muslims.
- Ibn Taymiyyah qs
Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
- Imam Shafi' (rahimullah)
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than
the Universe.
- Imam Shafi' (rahimullah)
The death of the self lies in the life of the heart.
- Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (rahimullah)
Your heart mirrors not His love,
Rusty with your sins it is,
Remove this rust and you shall
Perceive how Glorious He is.
- Jalal'uddin al-Rumi qs
Its about You, Your Lord and the Grave nothing else matters.
- Shaykh Nuh Keller
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave.
- 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (radiAllahu 'anhu)
Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.
- Ma'ruf al-Karkhi qs
Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your
worries.
- Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller
Be with Allah,
You will find Allah with you.
- 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
The Ulema are the successors of the Prophets (as). The Prophets did not leave
dirhams. They only left knowledge; and that is a great fortune for those who
grasp it.
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
Indeed Allah is gentle
and loves gentleness,
and gives due to gentleness
that which He does not give due to harshness
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
[ibn Majah, ibn Hibban - Hasan]
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to
become what they are capable of being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything that hearts find of worries and sadness is because of what they
have been denied of beholding Allah.
- One of the Salaf
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out
of.
If you are good, be better.
Action is the biggest measurement of knowledge.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already
achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
The need to be loved is childish, immature. The need to love is mature.
Every man dies, but not every man truly lives.
Reputation is what men and women think of us;
Character is what God and Angels know of us.
Do not ask, 'Where is God?', but ask, 'where am I?'
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Knowledge is understanding that a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- Mutma'inaa's Collected Pearls of Wisdom
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to
break
- Jane Wells
Do not wrong [others] and you will not be wronged.
- Qur'an [2:279]
As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is
more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of
Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it
is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of
the early generation (Salaf)
- Taqi ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah qs
In the time of the Rasulullah (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam), tasawwuf was a
reality without a name. Today tasawwuf is a name, but few know its reality.
He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith,
while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself.
Only he who combines the two proves true.
- Imam Malik bin Anas (rahimullah)
My companions are like stars, you will be guided by whichever one you follow.
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
[Musnad of Imam Abu Hanifa, al-Baihaqi and al-Daylami]
Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah lie the attitude of
peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba (Companions) of
the Prophet (saw).
- Taqi ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah qs
[The Creed of the Middle Path, Sharh Al Aqeedah Al Wasitiyah]
Iman is not something that I just "perform" in a place of worship.
Iman is life.
Iman is how I interact with Allah during all the breaths that I take.
- Shaykh Habib 'Ali al Jifri
In eloquence there is magic,
in knowledge ignorance,
in poetry wisdom,
and in speech heaviness
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
[Abu Dawud 41 #4994 - narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib]
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful
for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you
wrote.
- 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (radiAllahu 'anhu)
If someone devotes himself entirely to Allah (awj), He will provide him with
everything he needs, and if a person devotes himself entirely to this world,
Allah will leave him in its core.
- Shaykh 'Abdul-Qadir Jilani qs
Verily, the next life is better for you than this life.
- Qur'an [93:4]
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beware of this world, for it is sweet and tempting
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam)
Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his Deen.
- Al Hasan al-Basri qs
True devotion is for itself:
not to desire heaven
nor to fear hell.
- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya qs
I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek
the forgiveness of Allah
- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya qs
"Say: Allah is my all. In Him do (all) the trusting put their trust."
- Qur'an [39:38]
Dear Friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it clean of the
veil of dust which has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the
light of divine secrets.
- Shaykh 'Abdul Qadir Jilani qs [The Secrets of Secrets, p. XLIVII]
When people have despaired of reaping a harvest, God sends down rain. He
spreads his blessing across the world; he is the glorious guardian. Look at how
he created the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures that he has spread
across the earth. The creation is merely one among many of his signs. If he
wanted, he could gather the heavens and the earth and all the creatures into
one place.
- Qur'an, Surah Ash-Shura [42:27-29]
Shall I tell you who is kept away from Hell and from whom Hell is kept away?
From everyone who is gentle and kindly, approachable and of an easy disposition
- Muhammad (salAllahu 'alayhi wasalam) [at-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1315]
(Source: selected posting from "Mas Yos" Wiyoso Hadi)
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