Words of the scholars, past and present.
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Sufyān ath-Thawrī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “No saying is proper unless accompanied with action and no saying and action is proper unless accompanied with intention, and no saying, action and intention is proper unless they are consistent with the sunnah.”…
Sufyān ath-Thawrī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The scholar is [like] a doctor of this nation and the wealth is the sickness. Therefore, when the doctor brings the sickness to himself how can he treat others?!”…
Muḥammad bin Sīrīn (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “We used to say that the people with the most faults are the quickest of them to mention the faults of others.”…
Imām Mālik bin Anas (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The sunnah is like the ark of Nūḥ. Whoever embarks upon it reaches salvation and whoever refuses is drowned.”…
Hilāl bin Khabbāb (may Allāh have mercy upon him) says: I asked Sa’īd bin Jubayr, “O ‘Abu ‘Abdullāh, what is a sign of the destruction of people?” He replied: “When their ‘ulamā [learned ones] pass away.”…
Sufyān ath-Thawrī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “It is befitting for a man to persuade his child to acquire knowledge because he will be asked about this.”…
Ḥāfiẓ ibn Ḥajar al-‘Asqalānī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The one who constantly reads the Qurān, gets his tongue used to it and so reading becomes easy for him, but when he abandons it, reading it becomes very heavy for him and difficult.”…
Ma’rūf al-Karkhī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Hoping to receive the mercy of the one who you insist on being disobedient to, is a kind of betrayal and foolishness.”…
Sufyān ath-Thawrī (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “If you know yourself, then you will not be harmed by whatever is said about you.”…
Ibn Shubrumah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “I find it strange how people hold back from (certain) foods out of fear of falling sick, while they don’t hold back from sins out of fear of the Fire!”…
Shaykh al-‘Uthaymīn (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Each time an opportunity offers itself for the propagation of the Sunnah, do spread it, and you will certainly have the rewards and that of the one who acts upon it till the day of Resurrection.”…
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “(Your) time is (your) life, and whoever wastes his time wastes his life, and whoever wastes his life will be regretful and this regret will not benefit him (or her).”…
‘Umar bin ‘Abdul-‘Azīz (may Allāh have mercy upon him) wrote to a man: “If you think often about death, you will detest everything that is temporary and you will obtain the love for everything that is eternal.”…
Mālik bin Dīnār (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Look, O brother. Every brother, friend and companion you do not benefit from in your religion flee from him!”…
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “The isnād (chain of narration) is part of the dīn. If it were not for the isnād, then any person would have said (about Islām) whatever he wished.”…
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “There is no doubt that Islām came to give honour to the woman, guard her, protect her from the wolves of mankind, secure her rights and raise her status.”…
Shaykhul Islām ibn Taymiyyah (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Whoever speaks about the religion [al-Islām] without knowledge is a liar. Even if he had not intended to lie.”…
Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azīz bin Bāz (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “This era is an era of gentleness, patience and wisdom, not an era of harshness. The majority of people are in ignorance, heedlessly preferring the dunyā. So we must be patient and we must be gentle until the da’wah spreads, until the
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Perhaps a small deed becomes multiplied due to its [sincere] intention. Perhaps a great deed becomes small due to its [insincere] intention.”…
‘Abdullāh bin Mubārak (may Allāh have mercy upon him) reported: Ja’far bin Sulaymān (may Allāh have mercy upon him) said: “Concern about the world is a darkness in the heart, and concern about the Hereafter is a light in the heart.”…
