Top 70 Quotes About Ata
#1. Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.
Rob Glaser
#2. The most excellent of those who perform good deeds are those who most often remember God in all situations.
Ibn Ata Allah
#3. A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.
Ibn Ata Allah
#4. My lady Silk, remember that a man always gains in stature any way he chooses to associate with a woman - including adultery ... but in her association with a man, a woman is always in danger of being diminished.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#5. There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#6. Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions.
Ibn Ata Allah
#7. Persist in that invocation until the unity of the world is subsumed for you in a single sphere, so that with the eye of your heart you will see naught in the two worlds save the One.
Ibn Ata Allah
#8. Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#9. We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#10. The lights of some people precede their dhikr, while the dhikr of some people precede their lights. There is the one who does (loud) dhikr so that his heart be illumined; and there is the one whose heart has been illumined and he does (silent) dhikr.
Ibn Ata Allah
#11. Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#13. When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
Ibn Ata Allah
#14. Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#15. God Most High has said, "Is the reward of virtue aught save virtue?" ... Know, O man, that the covenant of servanthood is incumbent upon you, and that the covenant of Lordship is incumbent upon His magnanimity, as He Most High has said, " ... and fulfill your covenant, I shall fulfill My covenant."
Ibn Ata Allah
#16. I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.
Kate Lord Brown
#17. People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.
Ibn Ata Allah
#18. Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
He has guaranteed that he will respond
in what He chooses for you,
and not what you choose for yourself,
and at the time He chooses
not the time you desire.
Ibn Ata Allah
#20. If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you
Ibn Ata Allah
#21. The reality of the invocation is when the Invoked takes possession of the heart, and He is One. Separation and multiplicity exist before that for as long as the invoker is in the station of invoking with the tongue or with the heart.
Ibn Ata Allah
#22. Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#23. No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#24. If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.
Ibn Ata Allah
#25. One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.
Ibn Ata Allah
#26. Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil who leads you astray.
Ibn Ata Allah
#27. The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him
Ibn Ata Allah
#28. Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
Ibn Ata Allah
#29. The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.
Ibn Ata Allah
#30. He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.
Ibn Ata Allah
#31. People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#32. The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, what you seek is ahead of you.
Ibn Ata Allah
#33. At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#34. My god
how gentle you are with me
in spite of my great ignorance
and how merciful You are with me
in spite of my ugly deeds
Ibn Ata Allah
#35. Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.
Ibn Ata Allah
#36. A dog among the masters, the most masterly of the dogs.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#37. Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#38. But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be mean.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#39. Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
Ibn Ata Allah
#40. I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.
Ibn Ata Allah
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.
Ibn Ata Allah
#45. And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#46. When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it.
Ibn Ata Allah
#48. 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
#49. If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes
Ibn Ata Allah
#50. Things are working out ... towards their dazzling conclusions.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#51. For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#52. You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me, he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#53. 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
#54. If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.
Ibn Ata Allah
#55. When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.
Ibn Ata Allah
#56. Allah was when there was nothing else than Him, and His Throne was upon the water, and He wrote in the Reminder (al-dhikr) all things, and He created the heavens and the earth.
Ibn Ata Allah
#57. If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.
Ibn Ata Allah
#58. Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad ...
Ibn Ata Allah
#59. The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."
Ibn Ata Allah
#60. O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?
Ama Ata Aidoo
#61. It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#62. The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...
Ama Ata Aidoo
#63. Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!
Ibn Ata Allah
#64. The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God ... The Truth lies in the balance between the two extremes.
Ibn Ata Allah
#65. Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.
Ibn Ata Allah
#67. They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#68. The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#69. When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give
Ibn Ata Allah
#70. The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.
Ibn Ata Allah
