Beautiful Quotes, Proverbs, Sayings

"I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket. Every time my heart slips towards sin,
I light a match and place my palm over it. I then say to myself, oh Ali, you can't even bear this heat,
then how will you bear the unbearable heat of Hell-fire?"

- Muhammad Ali

“All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say ‘no’ and said ‘yes’.” ~Moss Hart

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Nor is duty beneficial because it is commanded,
but it is commanded because it is beneficial.

The Prophet] David (peace be upon him) once said:
“My God , how can I thank You, when my thankfulness to You is itself a blessing from among Your gracious favors?”

So Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) conveyed to him by way of inspiration: “Now you have thanked Me indeed! .”

“Thankfulness [shukr] is the conscious awareness of the fact that you are quite incapable of thankfulness.” - Abu ‘Uthman [al-Hiri]

“Thankfulness for thankfulness is more complete than simple thankfulness . This means that you regard your thankfulness as the result of His enablement [tawfiq], and you have received that enablement on account of the gracious favors bestowed upon you, so you give thanks to Him for the thankfulness He has enabled you to experience. Then you thank Him for the thankfulness-upon-thankfulness, and so on ad infinitum.”

“Thankfulness [shukr] means that you do not look upon yourself as worthy of the gracious favor you have received.Verily, you will not arrive at pure freedom as long as you see any trace of your servitude to God emanating from yourself.” al-Junaid (RA)

I love this one!


If my thanking Allah for His blessings is a blessing,
then I must thank Him in the same measure again.
How can one thank Him save by His grace
as time goes on, and life goes by?
My only excuse is that I am inadequate
but my excuse is a confession that I have no excuse.

Ibn Abi’l-Dunya

A man once said to Ibn al-Mubarak: ‘Is there anyone who will advise us?’ He replied, ‘Rather, is there anyone who will accept the advice?’

He who takes pride in his good deeds is in sin, and he who is ashamed of his evil deeds is in obedience.- [Ja'afar al Sadiq]

Hatim al-Asam said, “The one who delays four things until four others will find Paradise – sleep until the grave, pride until the accounting [of good and bad deeds], repose until after the crossing of the Siraat, and desires until entering Paradise.”

Hatim Al-Asam said, “Four things are not appreciated except by four types of people – youth is not appreciated but by the old, freedom from worries is not appreciated but by those afflicted with calamities, health is not appreciated but by those in poor health, and life is not appreciated but by the dead.”

Ali Ra said, “Four things, a little of which is still a lot – pain, poverty, fire, and enmity.”