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Wisdom and teachings of
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A nd it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you.

quote 5667 | The Quran
Q 2 : 216

W e shall test you with fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to the patient ones.

quote 5666 | The Quran
Q 2 : 155

S ay you: "We believe in God and the revelation given to us and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord.”

quote 5665 | The Quran
Q 2 : 136

S peak good to people.

quote 5664 | The Quran
Q 2 : 83

S eek help in patience and prayer.

quote 5663 | The Quran
Q 2 : 45

D o you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture?

quote 5662 | The Quran
Q 2 : 44

A nd establish prayer and give alms, and bow with those who bow (in worship and obedience)

quote 5661 | The Quran
Q 2 : 43

A nd do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know [it].

quote 5660 | The Quran
Q 2 : 42

A nd the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace,
And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing in prayer

quote 4563 | The Quran
AL FURQAN 25.63-64

W e have no freedom to achieve our goal
Until from Self and fools we free the soul.
To be admitted past the veil you must
Be dead to all the crowd considers just
Once past the veil you understand the Way
From which the crowd's glib courtier blindly stray
If you have any will, leave women's stories,
And even if this search for hidden glories
Proves blasphemy at last, be sure our quest
Is not mere talk but an exacting test.
The fruit of love's great tree is poverty
Whoever knows this knows humility

quote 4527 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds

A sluggard once approached a fasting saint
And, baffled by dispair, maded this complaint:
"The devil is a highwayman, a thief,
Who's ruined me and robbed me of belief."
The saint replied: "Young man, the devil too
Has made his way here to complain - of you.
'My province is the world,' I heard him say;
'Tell this new pilgrim of God's holy Way
To keep his hands off what is mine - if I
Attack him it's because his fingers pry
In my affairs; if he will leave me be,
He's no concern of mine and can go free'."

quote 4526 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds, p99

A n old, sad woman talked to Mahna's Sheikh:
"Teach me to pray for joy, for pity's sake -
I've suffered so much that I cannot bear
To think of future grief - give me some prayer
To murmur every day." The sheikh replied:
"How many years I wondered far and wide
Until I found the fortress that you seek -
It is the knee, bend it, accept, be meek;
I found no other way - this remedy,
And only this, will cure you of your misery."

quote 4525 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds, p123

G od said to Moses once: "Go out and find
The secret truth that haunts the devil's mind."
When Moses met the devil that same day
He asked for his advice and heard him say:
"Remember this, repeat it constantly,
Don't speak of 'me', or you will be like me."
If life still holds you by a single hair,
The end of your toil will be dispair;
No matter how you prosper, there will rise
Before your face a hundred smirking "I"s.

quote 4524 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds, p150.

U ntil this dog, the Self, can be subdued
Our life is folly endlessly renewed

quote 4523 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds, p96

A man who lived by digging graves survived
To ripe old age. A neighbour said: "You've thrived
For years, digging away in one routine -
Tell us the strangest thing you've ever seen."
He said: "All things considered, what's most strange
Is that for seventy years without a change
That dog, my self, has seen me digging graves,
Yet neither dies, nor alters, nor behaves!"

quote 4522 | Attar
The Conference of the Birds, p96

C all on your Lord with humility and in private.

quote 4371 | The Quran
Qur'an 7.55

S o remember the name of thy Lord and devote thyself with complete devotion.

quote 4370 | The Quran
Qur'an 73.8

E stablish regular prayers at the two ends of the day and at the approaches
of the night: for those things that are good remove those that are evil.
This is a word of remembrance to those who remember.

quote 4368 | The Quran
Qur'an 11.114

P rayer restrains one from shameful and unjust deeds; and remembrance of
God is the greatest thing in life, without doubt.

quote 4367 | The Quran
Qur'an 29.45

H e is the Living One; there is no god but He: call upon Him, giving Him
sincere devotion. Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds!

quote 4341 | The Quran
Qur'an 40.65

I f you are in any doubt concerning what We have sent down to you, then
question those who have read the Book before you; Truth has come to you
from your Lord, so do not be a waverer; do not be someone who rejects
God's signs, so you be a loser.

quote 4335 | The Quran
Qur'an 10:94

A nd they say, "Be Jews or Christians and you shall be guided."
Say, "Nay, rather the creed of Abraham, a man of pure faith; he was no
idolator." Say you, "We believe in God, and in that which has been sent
down on us and sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the
Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and Jesus and the Prophets; of
their Lord; we make no division between any of them, and to Him we
surrender."

quote 4333 | The Quran
Qur'an 2:135-136

T he true believers are those whose hearts are filled with awe at the
mention of God, and whose faith grows stronger as they listen to His
revelations. They put their trust in their Lord, pray steadfastly, and
give in alms of that which We have given them. Such are the true
believers. They shall be exalted and forgiven by their Lord, and a
generous provision shall be made for them.

quote 4327 | The Quran
Qur'an 8.2-4

O man! Verily you are ever toiling on towards your Lord--painfully
toiling--but you shall meet Him.... You shall surely travel from stage to
stage.

quote 4324 | The Quran
Qur'an 84.6, 19

G od is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
The parable of His Light
is as if there were a Niche,
and within it a Lamp;
the Lamp enclosed in Glass:
The Glass as it were a brilliant star:
Lit from a blessed Tree,
an olive neither of the East nor of the West,
Whose oil is well-nigh luminous,
though fire scarce touched it.
Light upon Light!
God guides whom He will to His Light:
God sets forth parables for men, and God knows all things.

quote 4295 | The Quran
Qur'an 24.35

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Wisdom and teachings ofIslam

Wisdom and teachings of
Islam