Words of Wisdom from Muslim Scholars and Thinkers


Love for God envelopes the heart, it rules the heart and it even spreads over everything.
- Imam Ghazzali





Acquire knowledge, and for acquiring knowledge learn to be calm and clement.
- Caliph Umar

Everyone is in the world as a guest, and his money is but a loan. The guest must go sooner or later and the loan must be returned.
- Ibn Masud

Know that patience, if viewed against one's affairs is like the head to the body. If the head leaves the body the whole body will be spoiled, likewise, if patience leaves, all affairs will be spoiled.
- Caliph Ali

Patience is of two halves, one half is patience, the other half is thanking God.
- Ibn Masud

Fear more the sin when you are out of sight, it is where your witness is also your judge.
- Caliph Ali

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects.
- Caliph Umar

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt.
- Imam an-Nawawi

I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.
- Caliph Umar

He Who created the eye of the mosquito is the One Who created the sun.
- Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Distress teaches vice. Despair is the source of misguidance; and darkness of heart, the source of distress of the spirit.
- Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Solidarity in a society results in tranquility in all its activities, while mutual envy causes all its activities to come to a standstill.
- Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

The revival of religion is the revival of the nation. The life of religion is the light of life.
- Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

A person who sees the good in things has good thoughts. And he who has good thoughts receives pleasure from life.
- Bediuzzaman Said Nursi

Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM

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