Top 100 Abu Quotes
#1. Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
#3. But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#4. Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr
#5. A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.
Hany Abu-Assad
#6. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Ali ruled from 656 to 661 but believed Muhammad intended him to succeed him originally in 632, rather than Abu Bakr.
Zephyros Press
#10. The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence that they were either in touch with Abu Sayyaf or doing their own espionage.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#11. He tells about his Sudanese roommate at Georgetown who owned a prayer rug with a compass to find Mecca built right into it. "After a few weeks in America, he rolled it up and used the compass to go camping," Han says.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#12. I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#13. The yachts' berth was next to the Yas Marina Circuit, where Formula 1 would come into town once a year. At night, when the lights on its orbicular architecture switched on, the circuit would radiate like a constellation of stars
Soroosh Shahrivar
#14. The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#15. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'
Abu Hurairah
#16. He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
Abu Bakr
#18. Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#19. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#20. Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#21. Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#23. Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.
Valtteri Bottas
#24. Sometimes when she lies awake her body feels as finely made as a tuning fork. She can hear and smell the most delicate things, the smell and music of thought itself.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#25. Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#26. Associate with people in such a manner that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#30. I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.
Ehud Olmert
#31. You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.
Abu'l-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi
#32. In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#34. Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.
Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb
#35. I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#36. Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
Abu Hanifa
#38. Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after his
request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#40. God helps those who fear Him.
Abu Bakr
#42. Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
Abu Bakr
#43. The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#44. A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws made by men. Allah is the only lawmaker.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
#45. To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr
#47. As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.
Hany Abu-Assad
#48. If the West wants to have peace, then they have to accept Islamic rule.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#49. O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
#50. If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#51. What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
Abu Bakar Bashir
#52. I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
John Yoo
#54. Phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#55. Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Abu Bakr
#56. We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#57. When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
Abu Abbas
#58. In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
Janis Karpinski
#59. He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu Bakr
#61. Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.
Abu Dhar Al-Ghifari
#63. Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#65. The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
#66. Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#67. I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
Abu Bakr
#68. When Matussem Ramoud opened his eyes each morning, his wife would still not be there.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#70. We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
John Yoo
#71. You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!
Abu Nuwas
#72. He believes that this man has looped a bit of the thread-leash through a corner of his soul.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#73. The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Janis Karpinski
#74. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#75. The streets of Aqaba are shell spirals and, on summer nights, crowded and complicated as a woman's heart.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#76. On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds?
So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
Abu Umamah Al Bahili
#77. I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.
Dennis Miller
#78. Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha
#79. It's a big formless, arctic night, the stars so bright they seem to hiss. I walk with my hands in pockets, arms pressed to my sides. Even in my down parka, the cold is still there. I feel as though my blood is crackling in it, my bones conducting cold like wires. My toes are curled in their boots.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#80. He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
Abu Bakr
#81. If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Abu Bakr
#82. An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#83. The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.
Tim Murphy
#84. The cards you have in your hand don't determine the winner but the ones you put on the table do.
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#85. The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#86. Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#87. almost everything is better than "living" in this shithole. Wait!! If my city is a shithole what does that make us?!
Abdullah Abu Snaineh
#88. The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#89. Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.
Hunter S. Thompson
#91. At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.
Abu Sufyan Ibn Harb
#92. No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#93. Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#94. Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
Abu Bakr
#96. The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Abu Bakr
#98. You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#99. Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.
Abu Bakar Bashir
