Gems Beautiful Quotes, Proverbs, Sayings

Riham said:
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
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This little quote ought to be highlighted and pasted on the wall.

What use is feeling appreciation for something that someone did and then not saying it?

In the same vein, one could say, what use is believing in Allah and His Messenger but refusing to say it?

If it was enough just to have feelings of gratitude, thankfulness, appreciation, faith, trust, love etc. in your heart and you think to yourself that this is all that matters, then why do people have to say out loud the shahadah to be a Muslim?

Your belief or faith isn't valid unless you declare it. If it was, then we wouldn't need to say the shahadah.

It's necessary to say it.... in order to prove that what you feel or believe in your heart is true.

If you don't say what's in your heart, it's as good as not having it. It's being miserly. Like a man who has wealth but won't spend it.

The Prophet (saws) even told us.... if you love someone.... go and tell that person you love him/her. If you don't, how is anyone going to know how you feel?

Also think about it this way. You are thankful to Allah for what He has given you. But the word of thanks "alhamdulillah!" doesn't come out of your lips.

If you are truly thankful, you'd say "Alhamdulillah"!

If you are truly appreciative of Allah's perfection, you'd say "Subhanallah"!

If you truly love someone, you'd tell that person, "I love you." For example, you would not just express your love in just words, you'd also show in actions. Like buying your Mom some roses to tell her how much you love her, while she's alive... Not buying them for her after she's dead.... and expecting her to have known that you had always loved her.

If you are truly grateful to someone for what he or she did, you'd say "Thankyou."

Whatever good is in your heart should be expressed in words. Or else, it has no value.

So yeah. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.





 
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Once Science said to Faith:
"My eye can see all that is in this world;
The Entire world is within my net.
I am only concerned with material things,
What have I to do with spiritual matters?
I can strike a thousand melodies,
And openly proclaim all the secrets that I learn."

Faith said:
"With your magic even the waves in the sea are set ablaze,
You can pollute the atmosphere with foul, poisonous gases.
When you associated with me, you were light,
When you broke off from me, your light became fire.
You were of Divine origin,
But you have been caught in the clutches of Shaytan.
Come, make this wasteland a garden once again.
Borrow from me a little of my ecstasy,
And in the world set up a paradise.
From the day of creation we have been associates,
We are the low and high tunes of the same melody."

ALLAMA IQBAL


 
There is no knowledge except that taken from Allah, for He alone is the Knower... the prophets, in spite of their great number and the long periods of time which separate them, had no disagreement in knowledge of Allah, since they took it from Allah.
 -Muhyddin Ibn 'Arabi
 
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you don't have. Remember that whatever you have now was once among the things you only hoped for.

You will understand it after thinking deeply.
 
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

- Marcus Aurelius
 
If you truly care for somebody, make dua for them. If you truly dislike somebody, make dua for them. Dua is universal. It heals everything. :)
 
thank you all for the great quotes (I wish i had the time to read them all)
 
Ghazalah said:
It is related that Abu 'Uthman was once riding in the street when a pot
of ashes was thrown down upon him. He dismounted, and prostrated
himself to God in gratitude, and then brushed the ashes from his
clothes without saying a word. 'Shall you not rebuke them?' he was
asked, but he replied, 'A man who deserves hellfire but receives only
ashes cannot fairly be angry'.
[Signs of good character]

SubhanAllah.
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Wow! Subhan Allah. This one is like someone throwing a cold bucket of water over your head and waking you up with a jolt. It makes you see your own weaknesses clearly.
 
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"We become great Lawyers when we defend our own mistakes. But when we look at others' mistakes, we become Judges."
 
Eloquent Repentance...

Oh how sweet are the words of the one who speaks thus:‘‘I ask You by Your power and my humility to show mercy to me. I ask You by Your strength and my weakness, by Your independence of me and my dependence upon You. Here is my lying, sinful forelock in Your hands. Your slaves other than me are so many, and I have no refuge or sanctuary from You except with You. I ask You in the manner of the poor and wretched, I pray to You in the manner of one who humbly submits, I call on You in the manner of one who is fearful and blind, one whose neck is totally bowed to You, whose eyes shed tears for you, whose heart is humbled before You.’’When the slave comes whispering words such as these, his faith multiplies exponentially in his heart.”—Ibn al-Qayyim on expressing humility before Allah​
 
[h=1]Foolishness of Man[/h]“Woe to you! You run to one who would shut his door in your face, display his poverty to you and conceal his riches. And you leave the One who opens His door to you in the middle of the night and the middle of the day, who displays His richness and proclaims, “invoke Me and I will respond.”"
- Wahb b. Munabbih
 
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird: love is its head, and fear and hope on its two wings. When the head and two wings are sound, the bird flies gracefully; if the head is severed, the bird dies; if the bird loses one of its wings, it then becomes a target for every hunter or predator.—Ibn al-Qayyim ​
 
Wealth should be viewed just like the toilet, in that you have need for it and resort to it when necessary, but it has no place in your heart.—Ibn Taymiyyah ​
 
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens
 

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