Favourite Quotes...

[SuBMiSSioN]

Assalamu 3alaykum

Rasulullah (salallahu 3alayhi wa sallam) said: "An intelligent person is one who is constantly thinking about and preparing for death"

wa assalamu 3alaykum

[dijma]

Assalamulaiakum

Why cry at the stories of those who won the pleasure of Allaah? why cry at the likes of Musa'b ibn Umair, Jafar ibn abi Talib radiAllaahuanhuma, or Sheikh Khalid Yasin rahimaAllaahu. Save your tears for yourself.

Cry at what we have achieved in comparison to what they have done. SubhanAllaah, this quote from Shk Abdullaah Azzam, may Allaah be pleased with him, inspires those who wish to be inspired...

“The life of the Ummah is connected to the ink of the scholars and the blood of the martyrs. What is more beautiful than to write the history of the Ummah with both the ink of the scholar and his blood, such that the map of Islamic history becomes coloured with two lines: one of them black, and that is what the scholar writes with the ink of his pen; and the second red, and that is what the martyr writes with his blood. And more beautiful than this is when the blood is one and the pen is one, so that the hand of the scholar, which expends the ink and moves the pen, is the same hand that expends his blood and moves the nations. The extent to which the number of martyred scholars increases, is the extent to which nations are delivered from their slumber, rescued from their decline and awoken from their sleep.

So history does not write its lines except with blood. Glory does not build its lofty edifice except with skulls. Honour and respect cannot be established except on a foundation of cripples and corpses. Empires, noble persons, states and societies, cannot be established except with examples"

[Ibn El-Sheikh]

When God loves His servant, He opens for him the door of actions and closes the door of theological disputations. - Ma'ruf al-Karkhi

[pass salaam]

mash'Allah some nice quotes indeed

[Dijlah]

Selam wr wb

My first post here so selamz to all.

I must say that my favourite quote is "Silence is wisdom, yet few practice it" I am not sure who said this but i do remember that i had heard it from a lecture. Subhannallah i think it is so true what the quote is saying..

[aussiemu]

wa alaikum assalam sis and welcome to the forum.

I think theres a saying "Silence is Golden". When you think of the amount of trouble people are going to be in for their tongue, you can see why those quotes stand true.

wassalamu 'alaikum

[pass salaam]

Has anyone notice a lot of famous quotes and motivation phrases used today sound alike like the guided words of our beloved prophet (saws)?

[Ibn El-Sheikh]

I was thinking of this today...the Salaf used to say:

"The one who is more daring in giving fatwas is more deserving of Hell."

[SuBMiSSioN]

Assalamu 3alaykum

Sufyaan Ibn ’Uyaynah (d.198H) – rahimahullaah – said: “He whose sin is due to desire, then have hope for him; and he whose sin is due to pride, then fear for him. Because Aadam (’alayhis-salaam) sinned due to desire, and he was forgiven; and Iblees sinned due to pride, and he was cursed.”

Related by Imaam adh-Dhahabee in Siyar A’laamun-Nubalaa (8/471).

[pass salaam]

subhan'allah

[Shadower]

If you kill one person you are a murderer. If you kill ten people you are a monster. If you kill ten thousand you are a national hero.
– Vassilis Epaminondou

[SuBMiSSioN]

Assalamu 3alaykum

’Alee Ibn Abee Taalib (radiyallaahu ’anhu) said: “Your brother is one who – if he brings a calamity upon you sometimes, then he does not cease having mercy upon you. Your brother is not the one who – if your affairs become disrupted – starts abusing and insulting you.”


Related by Ibn Katheer in al-Bidaayah wan-Nihaayah (7/128)

wa assalamu 3alaykum

[Shadower]

"My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." – G. K. Chesterton

[SuBMiSSioN]

Assalamu 3alaykum

Imaam al-Hasan al-Basree (d.110H) – rahimahullaah – said, when he came across a group of people disputing: “These ones have become tired of worship, speaking has become easy for them, and their piety has diminished, and that is why they talk.”

Related by Ahmad in az-Zuhd (p. 272) and by Aboo Nu’aym in al-Hilyatul-Awliyaa (2/156)

wa assalamu 3alaykum

[Ibn El-Sheikh]

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

[Ibn Yusuf]

From one of the local Imams...

"He who fails to plan, plans to fail"

[SuBMiSSioN]

Ibn Mas’ood (radiyallaahu ’anhu) said: “You are in a time whose scholars are many, and its speakers are few. After you will come a time whose scholars are few, and whose speakers are many,"


Related by at-Tabaraanee in al-Kabeer (no. 8066), and by al-Bukhaaree in al-Adabul-Mufrad (no. 789), and by al-Haafidh Ibn Hajar in Fathul-Baaree (10/1510) who declared it authentic.

[Shadower]

"Whoever abuses my Companions, upon them is the curse of Allah, the angels and all the people." [Sahih At-Tabarani]

[dijma]

"The hidden hand of the market cannot survive without a hidden fist. Mcdonalds will not flourish without Mcdonald Douglas" Thomas Freedman, NY times.

Ie, the global culture the US promotes is not benign. If you dont accept the golden arches of McDonals, the F15 produced McDonald Douglas will be flying above you soon with laser guided bombs.

[dijma]

on the above point of culture... someone said...
"To destroy a people, one must first sever their roots"

We see that happening today all over the world amongst Muslim youth and Musim society in general. The Muslim identity is a target no doubt.