Top 100 The Prophet Quotes
#1. Saying of the Prophet
Sleep
Sleep is the brother of death.
Idries Shah
#2. In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
Tariq Ramadan
#3. Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?
Sam Harris
#4. The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!
Benedict Of Nursia
#5. Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet.
Habib Umar Bin Hafiz
#6. The famous pastor in Scotland known as the prophet of Dundee44 once wrote: "For every time you look to men, look ten times to Christ." This constant looking back to Christ will keep us from judging others, and will allow us not to be discouraged even when we see problems with others in the body.
Greg Gordon
#7. Saying of the Prophet
Desire
Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.
Idries Shah
#8. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The Prophet himself was a model of equity toward those who did not share his faith. Through
Tariq Ramadan
#10. Here again Diatribe confidently brings in a gloss to suit herself, just as if Scripture were under her complete control. As for considering the prophet's meaning and intention, what need was there for a man of such authority to do that? All we need is: Erasmus says so, therefore it is so.
Martin Luther
#11. The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.
Hamza Yusuf
#12. Saying of the Prophet
Tasks
Whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.
Idries Shah
#13. He [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind ... The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
John Quincy Adams
#14. Saying of the Prophet
Practice
Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.
Idries Shah
#15. The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. Saying of the Prophet
Death
Die before your death.
Idries Shah
#17. I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!
Jack Kerouac
#18. It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.
G. Willow Wilson
#19. The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Benjamin Cardozo
#20. Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),
Idries Shah
#21. The prophet is always at the mercy of events; nevertheless, I venture to conclude this book with the forecast that at least half the illnesses of mankind
will disappear once our food supplies are raised from fertile soil and consumed in a fresh condition.
Albert Howard
#22. Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: "In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet" ... enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end.
Pope Benedict XVI
#23. Saying of the Prophet
Love
Do you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.
Idries Shah
#24. Saying of the Prophet
Struggle
The holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.
Idries Shah
#25. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#26. Autumn is a fleeting season, melancholy by nature. Its ghostly beauty cultivates a fertile atmosphere for memories that wrote their history on a tablet of fallen leaves - I recall them with the greatest clarity... Whatever else autumn may be, it is the prophet of winter. Winter lasts forever.
Brian P. Easton
#28. The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
Peter Drucker
#29. We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
Elayne Boosler
#30. The Merciful is kind to those who are merciful. If you show compassion to your fellow creatures in this world, then those in heaven shall be compassionate toward you.
-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as narrated by Abd'Allah bin Amr from The Bounty of Allah
Anonymous
#31. Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.
Idries Shah
#32. Saying of the Prophet
Women
Women are the twin-halves of men.
Idries Shah
#33. Don't Call Us Wahhabis!" The term Wahhabi is actually offensive to Wahhabis themselves, as it suggests that they venerate Wahhab, the prophet, rather than God. Wahhabis refer to their own religious affiliation as Muwahiddin ("Unitarianism").
Edward Trimnell
#34. Through the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord has established His Church once again among men.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#35. I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.
Pearl Abraham
#36. Human eloquence or persuasiveness of speech are the mere trappings of the dead, if the living Spirit be absent; the prophet may preach to the bones in the valley, but it must be the breath from Heaven which will cause the slain to live.
D.L. Moody
#37. We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.
Marita Golden
#38. I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#39. I want to say something to you men. You cannot destroy the appointment of a prophet of God, but you can cut the thread that binds you to the prophet of God, and sink yourselves to hell.
Harold B. Lee
#40. Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
John Calvin
#41. Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens
#42. Saying of the Prophet
Envy
Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
Idries Shah
#43. So let there be prose.
There must be a divine prose for the Prophet to triumph
Mahmoud Darwish
#44. The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens
#45. When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
Immanuel Velikovsky
#47. In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#48. The stage is yours, my dear Aaronic Priesthood boys. Are you ready and willing to play your part? The Lord needs every able young man to prepare and recommit, starting tonight, to be worthy of a call from the prophet of God to serve a mission.
Ronald A. Rasband
#49. If there is a religion caledl pure love, then I want to be the priest or the prophet of that religion.
Debasish Mridha
#50. All beauty is but a shadow of the Beauty of the Most Beautiful. "Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty," said the Prophet.
Faraz Rabbani
#51. Eid happens twice a year - Eid ul-Fitr or "Small Eid" marks the end of the Ramadan fasting month, and Eid ul-Azha or "Big Eid" commemorates the Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail to God.
Malala Yousafzai
#52. "President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."
Thomas S. Monson
#53. Sometimes we look at life from our the perspective of our own problems and in so doing, ignore how fortunate we really are. From A Matter of Perspective in the Kindle book Slices of Life by The Prophet of Life.
The Prophet Of Life
#54. They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The
Geraldine Brooks
#55. The Prophet supplicated that God, the Exalted, show him things in their reality, distinguished and clear: Show me the truth as truth and give me the ability to follow it; and show me falsehood as falsehood and give me the ability to avoid it.
Hamza Yusuf
#56. The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#57. Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.
Mike Pompeo
#58. A fundamental aim of Mawlid al-Nabi a is to attain love and proximity of the Prophet and to revive the believer's relationship with his most revered person.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#59. It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
William Sloane Coffin
#60. Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.
Sam Smith
#61. === God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out
Ikechukwu Joseph
#63. Saying of the Prophet
The Bequest
I have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
#64. This is our land, a holy land that belongs only to Arab Muslims. No others are to be here. This is Arab land. This is Muslim land. This is the land of the Prophet!
Tuvia Tenenbom
#65. A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. The whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!
Gordon B. Hinckley
#67. The prophet Micah preached to his downtrodden people: Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen [true, not to be minimized], I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. (7:8 NIV)
Louie Giglio
#68. I build the future of this nation, one child at a time. I help them shape their dreams and teach them how to fly. From Just a Teacher in the Kindle book Classroom Confessions by The Prophet of Life
The Prophet Of Life
#69. Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.
Donald Ray Pollock
#70. In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
Benjamin F. Johnson
#71. In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.
Michael Koryta
#72. Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.
Sholom Aleichem
#73. Saying of the Prophet
The Tongue
A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.
Idries Shah
#74. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man ... even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you ... God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#75. The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#77. There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, ... and the lion shall eat straw like the ox (Isaiah 11:6-9).
David Berg
#78. He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a single flame; there was in him nothing of the prophet or the mystic. He was a simple soul who loved, and that was all.
Victor Hugo
#79. I believe that in this way the teacher is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god.
Kevin Swanson
#80. l the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 3For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, m "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: n 'Prepare [1] the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.
Anonymous
#81. Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
Calvin Miller
#82. The bigger a man is, the more people he serves," said the Prophet. "A small man serves himself. Bigger is to serve your family. Bigger is to serve your tribe. Then your people. Biggest of all, to serve all men, and all lands.
Orson Scott Card
#83. Endowed with a clear intellect, warm in affection, and confiding in friendship, he was from the boyhood devoted heart and soul to the Prophet. Simple, quiet, and unambitious, when in after days he obtained the rule of half of the Moslem world, it was rather thrust upon him than sought
William Muir
#84. The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity.
Nicolas Caussin
#85. The Prophet Muhammad said : "The action of man stops when he dies except three things: continuous charity, knowledge (that he shares/teaches) or a pious child who prays for him." [Muslim: 4223]
Muhammad
#86. We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.
Nizar Qabbani
#87. Whoever has not thanked people, has not thanked God, said the Prophet Muhammad
Hamza Yusuf
#88. The Prophet answered: "How could I but be a thankful servant?"1 He did not demand of his Companions the worship, fasting, and meditations that he exacted of himself.
Tariq Ramadan
#89. Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.
Nouman Ali Khan
#90. [The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
Bashar Al-Assad
#92. Saying of the Prophet
The Judge
A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.
Idries Shah
#93. God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
John Locke
#94. Saying of the Prophet
Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.
Idries Shah
#95. If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition.
Jean Sasson
#96. The scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells what he has seen.
A.W. Tozer
#97. What the prophets of God did spiritually, the Prophet of God did quite literally and physically.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#98. You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
Hamza Yusuf
#99. If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Rumi
#100. There is no better example of an older brother's love than that exhibited in the life of Hyrum Smith for the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Heber J. Grant
