Ibn Jeem Quotes

Prophet Mohammed travelled to Taif where he was subjected to brutalities. He did not curse them nor did he take revenge for the humiliation. If he forgave & prayed for the people of Taif, how can anyone justify hurting people in his name? ~ Ibn Jeem

Action without intent is a waste of effort. ~ Ibn Jeem

Your choice between sunrise or sunset
depends on your attitude. ~ Ibn Jeem

Always, always, always love your mother.
No one else will ever love you like she does. ~ Ibn Jeem

To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman. ~ Ibn Majah

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly." ~ Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him. ~ Ibn Ata Allah

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind. ~ Ibn Ata Allah

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge. ~ Ibn Battuta

And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?"
"I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything. ~ Vladimir Bartol

There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping. ~ Ibn Sirin

Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted. ~ Uthman Ibn Affan

Two kinds of people live a life without care: one kind are extremely worthy of praise, the other kind are extremely worthy of criticism. The first are those who care nothing for the pleasures of the world and the second (i.e. those who are deserving of criticism) care nothing for haya or modesty. ~ Ibn Hazm

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ... ~ Samuel Ibn Naghrillah

Deliver us, O Allah, from the Sea of Names. ~ Ibn Arabi

The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection. ~ Ibn Khaldun

Jesus, the son of Mary, peace be upon them, was accustomed to say, "O my God, surely I have entered into the morning unable to neither forestall what I fear nor hasten what I hope for. The whole affair is in another's hand. I have arisen bound to my deeds. There is no one poorer than me. Do not make me the cause of my enemies being cursed, nor make me the reason any harm should come to a friend. Do not place tribulation in my spiritual path, nor empower anyone over me who shows me no mercy."

"Walk on Water: The Wisdom of Jesus"
From Traditional Arabic sources, translated by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. ~ Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā

Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'. ~ Ibn Mas'ud

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a
strange land. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion. ~ Ibn Warraq

There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another. ~ Ibn Majah

A person's tongue can give you the taste of his heart. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth. ~ Moses Ibn Ezra

Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

When love firmly settles in the heart, the limbs will only act in obedience to Allah. ~ Ibn Rajab

Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance. ~ Ibn Arabi

A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam. ~ Ibn Warraq

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Beware of the flight of Blessings,
For nothing that runs away is returned. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Do not take someone's silence as his pride,perhaps he is busy fighting with his self ~ Ali Ibn Abi Taleb

The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments. ~ Ibn Khaldun

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected. ~ Ibn Warraq