Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Khalid ibn al-Walid

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a military man Khalid ibn al-Walid.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi was an Arab Muslim commander in the service of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar. He played the leading military role in the Ridda wars against rebel tribes in Arabia in 632–633, the initial campaigns in Sasanian Iraq in 633–634 and the conquest of Byzantine Syria in 634–638.

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When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women

Khalid ibn al-Walid

When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah

Khalid ibn al-Walid

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

Khalid ibn al-Walid

Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

Khalid ibn al-Walid

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Khalid ibn al-Walid