The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.
MuhammadRead
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
Interpretation
Faith and love for one another are essential for spiritual fulfillment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of love and faith in achieving spiritual enlightenment or 'paradise'. It suggests that faith alone is insufficient; true faith is completed through acts of love towards others, highlighting the interconnection between beliefs and compassionate actions.
In practice
In a sermon focused on empathy, this quote could illustrate the necessity of community in faith.
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.
There will be no hatred or resentment among them, their hearts will be as one, and they will glorify God, morning and evening.
The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.
That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.
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