To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
By Allah, whenever I endure any adversity I gain four blessings of Allah in exchange. The first of them is, when the adversity is not caused by my sin (virtue is earned). The second, when the adversity is not greater than my sin (virtue is earned). The third, when I am not deprived of contentment (virtue is earned). And the fourth, I hope for virtues thereby.
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.
What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
To me an Indian is one who has got a Vedantic brain which probes deep and soars high; an Islamic body that is vibrant and valiant; a Buddhistic heart overflowing with compassion and kindness and Christian limbs of service and sacrifice.
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
If you want to kill something, neglect it. It happens in both good and bad. Neglect a relationship, it dies. Neglect your iman, it dies. But the same principal applies when you want to kill something like a thought or a desire. Neglect it, it dies.
People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
Whenever Allah gives a blessing to a servant, and then takes it back from him, and the servant patiently endures his loss, then He rewards him with a blessing which is better than the one which He took back.
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