Top 46 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Imams
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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake, but as a sign of gratitude to Allah. Why you ask? For making you the victim and not the oppressor. There is no crime in being a victim, rather it brings you closer to Allah and rids you of sins. But as for the oppressor, they'll have to face their Lord one day. So in reality, they are their own greatest victims.
As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.
Relationships can't blossom unless there is meaningful communication. That's why 'supplication is the key to worship.' It is a sign of meaningful communication between God and a person.
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow
I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness
I found Your forgiveness to be greater
If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya.
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.
Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.
Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.
The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.
You might be far from Allah, but, He is close to you! Turn to Him and you will find Him.
I had a lot of trouble accepting God as a human being.
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.
You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.
Muh?saba is your best selfie.
To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.
Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.
There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
Knowledge is not what is memorised.
Knowledge is what benefits.
You can't push anything to happen if you can't push a blanket off your body at fajr.
This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown
Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.
When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.
I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.
Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.
The death of the self lies in the life of the heart
Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.
Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.