Top 31 Quotes About Nafs: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nafs

#1. Instead of an outer-oriented jihad - defined as "the war against infidels" and carried out by many in those days just as in the present - Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one's ego, nafs.

Elif Shafak

#2. Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

Nouman Ali Khan

#3. The Path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide. Not your mind. Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs (false ego) with your heart. Knowing your ego (higher self/soul) will lead you to the knowledge of God. (2)

Various

#4. My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder.

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

Umar

#6. That Islam you see on TV does not represent me,
I'm too busy waging jihad against myself,
My own nafs are my enemy.
I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam,
Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand ...

Boonaa Mohammed

#7. Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Rumi

#8. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:

Yasmin Mogahed

#9. Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

Hassan Al-Banna

#10. To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

Timothy Winter

#11. If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

Said Nursi

#12. You cannot have two foundations. Either you stand and act from your heart and soul, or your life will flow from the animal soul, the nafs, your lust and greed and forgetfulness, which are characteristics of what dies and does not surrender to receive the compassion of God.

Bahauddin

#13. Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

Shams Tabrizi

#14. For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

Idries Shah

#15. Henry Ford had the additional distinction of being the only American mentioned favorably in Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's memoir of 1925.

Bill Bryson

#16. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Italo Calvino

#17. Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Laura Dern

#18. Jesus didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.

Jason Evert

#19. The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Idries Shah

#20. We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

John C. Maxwell

#21. The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Idries Shah

#22. Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Al-Ghazali

#23. Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

Garth Stein

#24. Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall.

Ellen J. Barrier

#25. But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Patrick Ness