Top 100 Ibn Quotes
#1. The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.
Ibn Warraq
#2. The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#3. The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#4. Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#5. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
Ibn Hazm
#6. Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah.
Ibn Saud
#7. The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.
Ibn Warraq
#8. It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.
Ibn Ata Allah
#10. Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#11. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.
Hakim Ibn Hizam
#12. A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#13. If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).
Uthman Ibn Affan
#14. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
#15. Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#16. What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Abbas Ibn Firnas
#17. In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque.
Mark Kurlansky
#19. Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause
Ibn Taymiyyah
#21. Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
Ibn Khaldun
#23. If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#24. How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires
Ibn Arabi
#26. Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#28. Your souls are precious and can only be equal to the price of Paradise, therefore sell them only at that price
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#29. There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.
Ibn Hazm
#31. If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes
Ibn Ata Allah
#32. The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#33. Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#34. One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.
Ibn Hazm
#35. Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.
Renee Ahdieh
#37. Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#38. Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#39. A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#40. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#43. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#44. Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."
Ibn Ata Allah
#47. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#48. The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them.
Ibn Warraq
#49. And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#50. There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
#51. Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#53. You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and you have a responsibility to a kingdom."
"If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.
Renee Ahdieh
#54. Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the moment that European opinion decided for toleration, it decided for eventual free marketing opinion.
Ibn Warraq
#55. 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
#56. Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#57. Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.
Ibn Warraq
#58. Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#61. Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.
Hasdai Ibn Shaprut
#62. Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#63. 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
#65. True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#66. 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
#67. There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.
Ibn Majah
#68. 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
#70. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#71. A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#72. 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
#74. So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.
Ibn Ata Allah
#76. If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#77. A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#78. We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.
Umar Ibn Al-Khattab
#79. We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#80. Remembrance is to the heart what water is to the fish. And what is the state of a fish that leaves water?
Ibn Taymiyyah
#81. The life of this world and the hereafter, in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance,
when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter
'Abd Allah Ibn 'Amr Ibn Al-'As
#83. Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#84. There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#85. I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.
Ibn Ata Allah
#86. Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#87. The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light
Ibn Arabi
#89. Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#90. If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.
Ibn Ata Allah
#91. Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#93. My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.
Salman Rushdie
#94. The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#95. I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love's caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
#96. If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#97. The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#98. Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#99. Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#100. Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
