Quotes About Suleiman

#1. The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.

Vivienne Westwood

#2. On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.

Nostradamus

#3. I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

Vivienne Westwood

#4. As part of his administrative reforms, Suleiman lowered taxes on peasants in his Empire. This led to immigration of Christian peasants who left the rest of Europe to live and work in the Ottoman Empire.

Firas Alkhateeb

#5. Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Omar Suleiman

#6. Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Omar Suleiman

#7. When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.

Omar Suleiman

#8. What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Omar Suleiman

#9. Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.

Omar Suleiman

#10. When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

Omar Suleiman

#11. I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

Elia Suleiman

#12. If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test.

Omar Suleiman

#13. The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

Elia Suleiman

#14. Good friends are hard to find so when you find one, hold on tight!

Omar Suleiman

#15. Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Omar Suleiman

#16. I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in.

Suleiman Nyambui

#17. When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you'll notice that Allah has sent OTHER people who treat you even better.

Omar Suleiman

#18. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.

Elia Suleiman

#19. When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

Omar Suleiman

#20. Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray.

Omar Suleiman

#21. I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.

Elia Suleiman

#22. Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn't answered you, He plans in your favor.

Omar Suleiman

#23. When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good..

Omar Suleiman

#24. Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.

Omar Suleiman

#25. Being unashamedly Muslim while excelling in whatever you do is of the greatest forms of Dawah.

Omar Suleiman

#26. The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Omar Suleiman

#27. Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.

Omar Suleiman

#28. Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday.

Omar Suleiman

#29. In order to bring out the best in people, you need to give them your best.

Omar Suleiman

#30. I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Elia Suleiman

#31. In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful.

Omar Suleiman

#32. Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you've done for others.

Omar Suleiman

#33. A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete opposite direction. I have to evacuate all psychology, to be less a protagonist and more a presence.

Elia Suleiman

#34. Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

Omar Suleiman

#35. If you're not doing it for Allah, then don't expect any help from Allah.

Omar Suleiman

#36. Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

Omar Suleiman

#37. Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

Omar Suleiman

#38. I don't really know what people's perception about Palestinians.All art is to better life. We want to create hope and share with others. Create more pleasure, and object to despair. Really it's about that. A space where we can be less aggressed upon.

Elia Suleiman

#39. Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

Omar Suleiman

#40. I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

Elia Suleiman

#41. I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

Elia Suleiman

#42. Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

Omar Suleiman

#43. Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Omar Suleiman

#44. Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

Omar Suleiman

#45. I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states.

Elia Suleiman