[Al Hujwiri]

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]

Hazrat Hasan Basri

Hazrat Hasan Basri said: An essential requisite for humility is that when an individual steps out of his home, whomever he sees he considers him to be superior to his own self.

Sayyiduna Mu’adh ibn Jabal

Sayyiduna Mu’adh ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “Learn whatever you wish to learn, but you will never be rewarded until you act upon your knowledge.”

Abdullah Ansari of Herat

Great shame it is to deem of high degree Thyself, or over others recon thee: Strive to be like the pupil of thine eye— To see all else, but not thyself to see. Shaykh al-Islam Abdullah Ansari of Herat

A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabe’a on her sickbed. Sitting beside her pillow, he reviled the world.

“You love the world very dearly,” Rabe’a commented. “If you did not love the world, you would not make mention of it so much. It is always the purchaser who disparages the wares If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently.” -Hadhrat Rabe’a al-Adawiya (rahmatullah alayhi)

The Taabi’ee ‘Ataa bin Abee Rabah رحمة الله عليه advised the king of his time Hishâm bin abd al-Malik with the following jewels..

…أتق الله في نفسك
…وأعلم أنك خلقت وحدك
…وتموت وحدك
…وتحشر وحدك
وتحاسب وحدك

Fear Allâh in regards to yourself,
Know that you were created alone…
…And that you will die alone,
Be resurrected alone….
…..And taken into account alone

[Shaykh Hamza Yusuf]

We forget that this Deen was once given Divine signs from Allah that were so clear as to inspire the soldiers of Islam to fight with a vigor and certainty that led a British prime minister to admit, “We cannot defeat a people who see the gates of Paradise down the barrel of our cannons.” [Shaykh Hamza Yusuf]