Khaldun Rasheed Quotes

In the case of all human qualities, the extremes are reprehensible, and the middle road is praiseworthy. ~ Ibn Khaldun

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'
Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ~ Vikram Seth

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher. ~ Ibn Khaldun

Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack ... and nourished along the way. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Our attitudes are the wings on which our talent and careers fly or dive. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. ~ Ibn Khaldun

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors. ~ Ibn Khaldun

The fifth stage is one of waste and squandering. In this stage, the ruler wastes on pleasures and amusements the treasures accumulated by his ancestors, through excessive generosity to his inner circle. Also, he acquires bad low-class followers to whom he entrusts the most important matters of state, which they are not qualified to handle by themselves, not knowing which of them they should tackle and which they should leave alone. The ruler seeks to destroy the great clients of his people and followers of his predecessors. ( ... )Thus, he ruins the foundations his ancestors had laid and tears down what they had built up. In this stage, the dynasty is seized by senility and the chronic disease from which it can hardly ever rid itself, for which it can find no cure, and eventually it is destroyed. ~ Ibn Khaldun

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted. ~ Ibn Khaldun

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The wounds on the body can be healed by medicine but the wounds in heart can only be healed by love. ~ Hussain Rasheed

Make your timetable according to your life but dont make your life according to your timetable ~ Hussain Rasheed

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption. ~ Ibn Khaldun

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations. ~ Ibn Khaldun

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction. ~ Ibn Khaldun

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Everything boils down to love and compassion - or its absence. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Destinations are end points. Journeys are learnings, paths of possibilities, blossoming... fresh beginnings. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to. ~ Moveena Rasheed

The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Muslims pursued knowledge to the edges of the earth. Al-Biruni, the central Asian polymath, is arguably the world's first anthropologist. The great linguists of Iraq and Persia laid the foundations a thousand years ago for subjects only now coming to the forefront in language studies. Ibn Khaldun, who is considered the first true scientific historian, argued hundreds of years ago that history should be based upon facts and not myths or superstitions. The great psychologists of Islam known as the Sufis wrote treatise after treatise that rival the most advanced texts today on human psychology. The great ethicists and exegetes of Islam's past left tomes that fill countless shelves in the great libraries of the world, and many more of their texts remain in manuscript form.
In the foreword of "Being Muslim. A Practical Guide" by Dr. Asad Tarsin. ~ Hamza Yusuf

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

When trouble arose between 'All and Mu'awiyah as a necessary consequence of group feeling, they were guided in (their dissensions) by the truth and by independent judgment. They did not fight for any worldly purpose or over preferences of no value, or for reasons of personal enmity. This might be suspected, and heretics might like to think so. However, what caused their difference was their independent judgment as to where the truth lay. It was on this matter that each side opposed the point of view of the other. It was for this that they fought. Even though 'Ali was in the right, Mu'awiyah's intentions were not bad ones. He wanted the truth, but he missed (it). Each was right in so far as his intentions were concerned. ~ Ibn Khaldun

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

One moment of compassionate awakening you can reverse a lifetime of selfish sleepwalking. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru