Words of Wisdom

Watch your eye, should it ever reveal to you the faults of others, say to it: "O my eye, other people have eyes too." [Ahmad al Zarruq]

You possess a diamond called Islam. Don't hide it away - share the light of it with others. [Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki]

"Your nafs is your first battlefield.If you are victorious over it,then you will find the other battlefields easier."
~Imam Hasan Al-Banna Rahimahullah

There are two kinds of speeches and two kinds of silences.

Speech is either truth or falsification,
and silence is either fruition or heedlessness.

If one speaks the truth,
his words are better than his silence,
but the one who invents falsifications,
his silence is better than his speech.

[Al Hujwiri]

Repentance, awareness of God, and uprightness are the foundations of all that is beneficial.

Know that repentance is a key,
God consciousness (taqwa) is vast,
and uprightness is the source of rectification.

[Shaykh Ahmad al Zarruq]

"A man went to the rose garden in search of beautiful blooms but found the beauty he craved in the face of the gardener." [Rumi]

"Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul."

[Masnavi I:821-2 , Rumi]

Know that the Qur'an is the ocean wherefrom the jewels of knowledge and the treasures of understanding are extracted.

[Imam Abdullah ibn Alawi al Haddad]

Earning is not your in control, but spending is.

[Hazrat Moulana Muhammad Farouq Sahib]

There is no good in wealth without generosity;

there is no good in brotherhood without caring for one another;

there is no good in a blessing that is short lived;

and there is no good in supplication without sincerity.

[Ali (R.A)]

The best awareness is for a man to have self-awareness. And the best knowledge is for a man to stop at the limit of his knowledge. [Shaykh Abdullah Adhami]

Do not approach me on the basis of your noble pedigree. Approach me on the basis of your righteous devotion. Be sensible! You have nothing of real value to offer. You can have no standing in the presence of Allah on the basis of your ancestral pedigree alone. For that you must acquire the genuine pedigree of righteous devotion. [Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani]