Islamic Wisdom Quotes

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge. ~ Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. ~ Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. ~ Umar

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. ~ Hassan Al-Banna

If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

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

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence ~ Rumi

Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them ~ Ibn Ata Allah

Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory. ~ Al-Shafi'i

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~ Rumi

Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it's understood. ~ Yasmin Mogahed

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah. ~ Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone. ~ Hasan Of Basra

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
The day You became my Friend,
I have not slept -
And even if You drive me from your door,
I swear again that we will never be separated -
Because You are alive in my heart ~ Rabia Basri

Worry about Allah and what He wants you to do and He will take care of your worries. ~ Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. ~ Rumi

You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen. ~ Hasan Of Basra

Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart. ~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. ~ Ralph Charell

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. ~ Muhammad Ali

We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. ~ Hassan Al-Banna

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great. ~ Muhammad Asad

We must begin looking at each other as brothers and sisters ... and not walking brochures. We must see each other's strengths and encourage those strengths ... We must see each others weaknesses and be patient with those weaknesses ... sometimes even look beyond what we see as "weaknesses" and move on with compassion and love and respect. That takes true faith. ~ Dawud Wharnsby Ali

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then. ~ Al-Ghazali

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to be wise, learn wisdom from nature. ~ Debasish Mridha

Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?
Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again. ~ Barbara Michaels

I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday. ~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Manifest kindness to embrace greatness. ~ Debasish Mridha

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God. ~ Epictetus

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. ~ Dante Alighieri

It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known. ~ Eric Lindstrom

"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. " ~ Charles Dickens

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved. ~ Mahesh Babu

With love, nothing is impossible. ~ Debasish Mridha

The only way to learn is by changing your mind. ~ Orson Scott Card

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them. ~ C. G. Jung

Life is a sacred breath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom. ~ Confucius

Extra knowledge adds no value unless you put it into action or share it with others. ~ Francis Shenstone

If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power--something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, yet also of never doing anything, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud bearing the fiercest storms, then the eeriest bright spells, if only for an interval of disquieting calm. We see an omnipotence equal to that of the Cartesian God, and capable of anything, even the inconceivable; but an omnipotence that has become autonomous, without norms, blind, devoid of the other divine perfections, a power with neither goodness nor wisdom, ill-disposed to reassure thought about the veracity of its distinct ideas. We see something akin to Time, but a Time that is inconceivable for physics, since it is capable of destroying without cause or reason, every physical law, just as it is inconceivable for metaphysics, since it is capable of destroying every determinate entity, even a god, even God. This is not a Heraclitean time, since it is not the eternal law of becoming, but rather the eternal and lawless possible becoming of every law. It is a Time capable of destroying even becoming itself by bringing forth, perhaps forever, fixity, stasis, and death. ~ Quentin Meillassoux

All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word. ~ Socrates

Celestial wisdom calms the mind. ~ Samuel Johnson

Faith changes us - faith in something intrinsically good, something other than ourselves, something bigger than ourselves. ~ Donna Goddard

..they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much. ~ Plato

Human nature is all alike. ~ Mark Twain

Only God can be trusted with His intentions. For the rest, you gotta make it clear from the onset but even then, you cannot trust them. But then again, isn't it intentional? Can I change? These are the honest questions I ask myself as a human being. ~ DON SANTO

Let my heart feel the joy,
see the beauty, all around me.
Still it may be in pure agony. ~ Debasish Mridha

The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out the manner in which the natural organism itself wants to react and which its innate wisdom has provided. ~ Alan W. Watts

Love is what I would describe as a state and not an emotion. It is the true essence of Creation. The embodiment of Freedom, Joy, Peace, Wisdom, Intelligence, Logic, Luck, Understanding, Truth and Harmony. It goes beyond affection and transcends simplicity of attachment. It is the light where there is darkness. ~ Jedaiah Ramnarine

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. ~ Thomas Huxley

Love is the world's friend, ignorance is the universe's enemy. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a gift, so open it every day and enjoy the delight of opening. ~ Debasish Mridha

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom.
But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end. ~ Paulo Coelho

In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes. ~ Frederick Lenz

Get this through your head - you are not responsible for other people's happiness. ~ Bryant McGill

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom. ~ Edmund Burke

Albania's future is towards Christianity, since it is connected with it culturally, old memories, and its pre-Turkish nostalgia. With the passing of time, the late Islamic religion that came with the Ottomans should evaporate (at first in Albania and then in Kosova), until it will be replaced by Christianity or, to be more exact, Christian culture. Thus from one evil (the prohibition of religion in 1967) goodness will come. The Albanian nation will make a great historical correction that will accelerate its unity with its mother continent: Europe ~ Ismail Kadare

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. ~ Rumi

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. ~ Robert Frost

My life is a daily celebration. I choose who to invite to my party, and who doesn't get an invitation. And I'd be damned if I spent my time standing at the door, looking out and wondering where some people are, while my home is filled with people who are there to celebrate with me. Every day, I am going to party with the people whom I invited, the people who matter. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise and revise. We are always in the midst of our own becoming. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

Heroes are the saints of every nation. ~ Sorin Cerin

Breath remains the vehicle to unite body and mind and to open the gate to wisdom. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth. ~ Ginn Hale

Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people. ~ Anasazi Foundation

There are people whom a lowered position degrades morally, to whom loss of connection costs loss of self-respect: are not these justified in placing the highest value on that station and association which is their safeguard from debasement? If a man feels that he would become contemptible in his own eyes were it generally known that his ancestry were simple and not gentle, poor and not rich, workers and not capitalists, would it be right severely to blame him for keeping these fatal facts out of sight
for starting, trembling, quailing at the chance which threatens exposure? The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbor's conduct, to question the world's wisdom: wherever an accumulation of small defences is found, whether surrounding the prude's virtue or the man of the world's respectability, there, be sure, it is needed. ~ Charlotte Bronte

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. ~ Erik Erikson

Don't ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world. ~ Abhijit Naskar