Quotes About This Dunya

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

Martin Luther

#4. 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

#5. I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Johnny Unitas

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

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier - it takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspirations, and our hearts, which may lead in a very different direction.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.

John Brady

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

Nana Awere Damoah

#13. Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Robert Love

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Content with small pleasures and yet never really satisfied!

Hermann Hesse

#17. My brother said this to him, tapping his own forehead with his fingertips: "If you think this laboratory is bad, you should see what it's like in here." And so on. ***

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Yasmin Mogahed

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

Anonymous

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

Uthman Ibn Affan

#23. Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

Walter Duranty

#24. 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

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

Hamza Yusuf

#26. 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