Basri Quotes

#1. It's depressing to be so depressed.

Marshall Thornton

#2. If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

Rabia Basri

#3. I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

Rabia Basri

#4. With 'Gone Girl,' I sat down, and suddenly the end credits were rolling; you just become so engrossed in it.

Atticus Ross

#5. How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Rabia Basri

#6. innocent." Stupid, stupid woman, but a woman whose daughter was lost in the

Douglas Coupland

#7. You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

Rabia Basri

#8. How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

Rabia Basri

#9. O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

Rabia Basri

#10. O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

Rabia Basri

#11. O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in

Rabia Basri

#12. I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

Rabia Basri

#13. There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

#14. Your prayers are your light;
Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.
Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,
You will only turn to dust.

Rabia Basri

#15. You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

#16. Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure
Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word
My choicest hours
Are the hours I spend with You -
O God, I can't live in this world
Without remembering You

Rabia Basri

#17. When you live your life in alignment with a purpose that is centered on selflessly adding value for others, opportunities become abundant and your life becomes fulfilled.

Hal Elrod

#18. O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court

Rabia Basri

#19. I'm afraid I've already found my Ever After, Hort," said Sophie.
"What? With who?" Hort asked, aghast.
"On my own," she said, her voice sure and clear. "I'm happy on my own."
And for the first time, she knew it was true.

Soman Chainani

#20. And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered.

Mary E. Pearson

#21. I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

Rabia Basri

#22. Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

Jeffrey Kluger

#23. Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

Rabia Basri

#24. Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Rabia Basri

#25. Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

Stephen Kinzer

#26. The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

#27. True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

Rabia Basri

#28. For this world has neither worth nor weight with God; so slight it is, it weighs not with God so much as a pebble or a single clod of earth; as I am told, God has created nothing more hateful to Him than this world, and from the day He created it He has not looked upon it, so much He hates it.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

#29. I swear that ever since the first day You brought me back to life,
The day You became my Friend,
I have not slept -
And even if You drive me from your door,
I swear again that we will never be separated -
Because You are alive in my heart

Rabia Basri

#30. Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart.

Sarah Caulfield

#31. Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for it, He turns it into a punishment.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

#32. People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

Ronald Everett Capps

#33. The only thing Americans love more than Walmart and firearms (and buying firearms at Walmart) is accents.

Brian Moylan

#34. May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Rabia Basri

#35. Luck is a dividend of sweat.

Ray Kroc

#36. He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

Rabia Basri

#37. The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.

Rabia Basri

#38. Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri