Inspiring Islamic Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse."

- Hz Abu-Bakr as-Siddique (RA)

"O Allah! You blessed me with Islam and I didn’t ask You for it, O Allah bless me with Jannah and I am asking for it."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

"Make your character good for the people."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah’s is the most regular and constant even though it were little."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"None of you truly believes (in Allah and His religion) until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"If anyone fulfills his brother’s needs, Allah will fulfill his needs; if one relieves a Muslim of his troubles, Allah will relieve his troubles on the Day of Resurrection."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"The (true) servants of (God) the Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, reply with (words of) peace."

- The Holy Quran

"And if Allah touches you with affliction, none can remove it but He: But if He bestows upon you a favor, remember that He is the Possessor of every power to do all that He wills."

- The Holy Quran

"Do not be fooled by the one who recites the Quran. His recitation is but speech, but look to those who act according to it."

- Hz Umar Ibn al-Khattab (RA)

"My sin had burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord! Your Forgiveness came out greater."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

"It is also charity to utter a good word."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"A moment of patience in the moment of anger prevents thousands of moments of regret."

- Hz Ali Ibn Abi Talib (RA)

"The believer is not he who eats his fill while his neighbor is hungry."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Wisdom is a long-cherished wish to the believer. He takes it from wherever he listens to it; and he does not mind from where it came out."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God…Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"He who makes peace between people by inventing good information or saying good things, is not a liar."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"The most valuable things in life are a tongue which mentions God, a grateful heart and a believing wife who helps a man with his faith."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"You will not attain righteousness till you spend in charity of the things you love."

- The Qur’an

"Do not turn away a poor man…even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you…God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Wealth is not due to plenty of money, but wealth is the wealth of the self."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety. It is only in the darkest nights that the stars shine more brilliantly."

- Hz Ali Ibn Abi Talib (RA)

"Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

"The best of all dealings is the one which is moderate."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"(Islam) is spacious (and has room for relaxation), and I have been sent with an easy and straightforward religion."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Forsake worldly pleasures, Allah will like you, and forsake what others have, mankind will like you."

- Prophet Muhammad (s)

"Patience is a pillar of faith."

- Hz Umar Ibn al-Khattab (RA)

"Stick to the Truth, even if the Truth kills you."

- Hz Umar Ibn al-Khattab (RA)

"Your charity will not be accepted until you believe: 'I need the reward more than the beggar needs the money.'"

- Hz Uthman ibn Affan (RA)

"Worrying about the world is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about the Hereafter is a light in the heart."

- Hz Uthman ibn Affan (RA)

"Do not love the one who doesn’t love Allah. If they can leave Allah, they will leave you."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

"The one who is truly enslaved is the one who is a slave of his desires."

- Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA)

"People are paying no attention to the best act of worship: Humility."

- Hz Aisha bint Abu-Bakr (RA)

"The wealth of a miser is as useless as a pebble."

- Hz Ali Ibn Abi Talib (RA)

"He who thinks that he is free from the criticism of people is a mad man, for even the Lord of the Worlds Himself has been wrongfully criticized."

- Imam al-Shafi’i (RA)

"Sins destroy the heart the same way poison destroys the body."

- Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA)

"Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in the dark!"

- Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (RA)

"When the allurement of this life comes to a person, he borrows the good manners of others. however, when it goes away from him, it strips his good manners from him."

- Ali (r)

"If you don’t stand up for something, you’ll fall for anything."

"We need authentic leaders, people of the highest integrity, committed to building enduring organizations."

"The best place to succeed is where you are with what you’ve got."

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."