Favourite Quotes...

[ButterNut]

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” Rumi.

[Tay_]

"The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space" - Ali ibn Abi Talib (r)

[Sinan.]

'Abdullaah ibn Mas'ood (radhi-yallaahu 'anhu) said:

"The Jamaa'ah is what accords to the truth, even if you are alone."

Sharh Usool I'tiqaad Ahlis-Sunnah wal-Jamaa'ah - al-Laalikaa.ee

[Umm Binyameen]

Ibn Taymiyah says [al-`Ubûdiyyah (94-95)]:

The stronger the servant’s desires are pinned on the favor and mercy of his Lord as being the means to fulfill his needs and repel his misfortunes, the stronger his servitude to his Lord becomes. And in this is freedom from everything besides Him. For, since it is the case that the more a person’s hopes are pinned on created beings, the more he is compelled to subservience to them, it follows that his having no hope in them provides him with independence from them.

[Tay_]

"The scholars, people of piety, those of wisdom and those near to God would correspond to one another on three topics, there not being a fourth: whoever makes excellent his privacy, God will make excellent his public expression, whoever makes good that which is between himself and God, God will make that which is between him and the people good, whoever has the afterlife as is concern, God will make his worldly affairs sufficient". -
Ali ibn Abi Talib (r)

[*Muhajabah*]

"To take care of yourself is to take care of your heart." - Tariq Ramadan

[Umm Binyameen]

Ibn Taymiyyah (Rahimahullah) said:

Bearing witness to Tawheed opens the door of good and repentance from sins closes the door to evil. (Majmoo-ul-Fataawaa, 10/256)

[Umm Binyameen]

"Don't depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness."

~ Ibn Taymiyyah

[hawa.mhassan]

"If you want something in your life and you aren't praying tahajud for it then in reality you don't really want it." Shaykh Yasir Qadhi

[Tay_]

"Islam is not about publicly institutionalising virtuous action; Islam is about personally internalising virtuous action" - Imam Afroz Ali (may Allah swt preserve him)

[Abu Coburg]

Islam is not about publicly institutionalising virtuous action; Islam is about personally internalising virtuous action

Pure rubbish!

Islam is most definitely about publicly institutionalizing virtuous action as well as personally internalizing it.

The lives of our sahaba and the pious tabi'een and pious imams of the ummah are testament to it, and by 'imam' I mean REAL ones, like Al-Ghazali or An-Nawawi or Ash-Shafi'iy and others. He should really read the comman of amr bil ma'roof. This is why unqualified people should not deliver lectures and sermons and the all so popular 'workshops'.

If it was all about internalizing it, then your friend Afroz Ali should be out of business! Why on earth is he running his Al-Ghazali Center? Why doesn't he just sit at home on the musalla? Must be hard to part with such a profitable business.

He'd certainly be doing the community a great favor if he went silent in the public sphere!

May Allah guide this misguided person or silence him for the benefit of the ummah.

[Tay_]

To spend a moment in your love, beyond this world of strife.
To know the beauty of your face, beyond the realms of life.
To pay the price you ask of us, O Lord of life sublime!
To purge the darkness from our hearts, within this brief lifetime.

(From A Moment in Your Love)

Imam Zaid Shakir (may Allah swt preserve him)

[Umm Binyameen]

"Make your association (with worldly people) a profit not a loss. Be like the man traveling along, whom another invites to stop: seek to take him along with you. When he comes along, lead him but be not led by him. And if he refuses, and you have no hope that he will journey, then do not let him detain you. Rather, hasten on, pay him no heed. Do not turn in his direction, for he is a highway robber regardless."

Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah

[Umm Binyameen]

"Man's fear of Allah is equal to his knowledge of Him, and his renunciation of the life of this world is equal to his desire of the Hereafter. Whoever acts according to what he knows, Allah will make him successful in what he doesn't know. And whoever is ill-tempered disgraces his honour, religion and generosity."

Al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyaad

[Umm Binyameen]

"My children are one of two kinds: they are either from amongst those who obey the command of Allah, or of those who disobey Him. If they are righteous, Allah will take care of them, and if they are not, I do not want to help them commit a sin with my money."

'Umar ibn 'Abdil-'Azeez

[Tay_]

"To be loved by Allah, one has to emulate *the* beloved of Allah" - Imam Afroz Ali (may Allah swt preserve him)

[hawa.mhassan]

This one is funny...

On the authority of Sheikh Muhammad Alshareef, Sheikh Yasir Qadhi said, "We are a nation that has perfected the art of reading without understanding!"

[hawa.mhassan]

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.

- Imam Ash-Shafi (rahimullah) [/b]

Talk about humility, SubhanaAllah.

[Umm Binyameen]

"I have not treated anything more difficult than my intention, because it keeps changing." Sufyaan Ath Thawree

[hawa.mhassan]

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi: "Judging someone else's intentions only shows your own insincerity."