Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.71497150Copy Quote
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You Presume you are a small entity, But within you is enfolded the entire universe. You are indeed the evident book, By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest. Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself, What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.22712272Copy Quote
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.18761877Copy Quote
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.17131714Copy Quote
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.15681569Copy Quote
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.15381539Copy Quote
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.442443Copy Quote
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.13431344Copy Quote
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.12921293Copy Quote
Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.12801281Copy Quote
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.12581259Copy Quote
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.11511152Copy Quote
Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins. No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth. Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.11441145Copy Quote
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.11051106Copy Quote
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.10281029Copy Quote
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
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To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.10071008Copy Quote
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.965966Copy Quote
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.933934Copy Quote
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
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Don't cry upon you losses Don't mesure today with tommorows Don't trust to passed and coming day Believe in now - and be happy today.894895Copy Quote
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.887888Copy Quote
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.864865Copy Quote
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.828829Copy Quote
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
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A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
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Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.749750Copy Quote
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.744745Copy Quote
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.743744Copy Quote
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.707708Copy Quote
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.699700Copy Quote
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.676677Copy Quote
Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.675676Copy Quote
Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.613614Copy Quote
I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may, in His wisdom, send me.609610Copy Quote
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.584585Copy Quote
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.577578Copy Quote
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?559560Copy Quote
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.557558Copy Quote
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.548549Copy Quote
Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.539540Copy Quote
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.535536Copy Quote
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.520521Copy Quote
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.516517Copy Quote
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.507508Copy Quote
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.502503Copy Quote
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?502503Copy Quote
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.501502Copy Quote
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.499500Copy Quote
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
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I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.484485Copy Quote
When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater481482Copy Quote
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.481482Copy Quote
If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.477478Copy Quote
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
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