Quotes About Dunya

#1. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

Hamza Yusuf

#2. Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.

Yasmin Mogahed

#3. In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.

Yasmin Mogahed

#4. Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.

Khadija Rupa

#6. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. The Dunya is like the ocean and our heart is like the ship. If a ship allows the water to enter, it will sink. Just like when we allow the Dunya to enter our heart.

Yasmin Mogahed

#8. O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

Luqman

#9. And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

Hamza Yusuf

#10. What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!

Ibn Taymiyyah

#11. The nature of the dunya as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments.

Yasmin Mogahed

#12. Tale of Taj al-Muluk and the Princess Dunya (The Lover and the Loved).

Anonymous

#13. Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#14. Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.

Yasmin Mogahed

#15. What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's
given to Allah is never lost. If you give what
you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll
have what you love forever.

Yasmin Mogahed

#16. Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.

Yasmin Mogahed

#17. I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

Ryan Kwanten

#18. Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally ... Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

Stanley Greenspan

#19. After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Mike Birbiglia

#20. Volkswagen has been, is, and will always be my life.

Martin Winterkorn

#21. When there is nothing left to love for, it's easy to die for something.

Gavin Mills

#22. The casual listener won't be around forever.

Mike Shinoda

#23. Here is what I have learned,' Henry said. 'If you cannot be unafraid...be afraid and happy...Think about what you are afraid of...Does it have to be something that kills you? No. It is just a little thing. It could be anything. It could be something beautiful instead.

Maggie Stiefvater

#24. We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Seneca The Younger

#25. Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Alexander Pope

#26. I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies. I had some enemies. I had people that really I helped a lot. And when I needed the help, in some cases, they were not there for me.

Donald Trump

#27. I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

Almeida Garrett

#28. The next day there was still no sign of Sugar's 5A neighbor, although the window boxes had been rearranged overnight, the mint harvested and Thai basil planted in its place. Again, the window was open and the heavenly scent of something deliciously cakelike was swirling around the rooftop.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#29. When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Mary Douglas

#30. No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

M. Emmet Walsh