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Hudhayfah b. Qatadah said: “If you obey Allāh in private, He’ll improve your heart, whether you wish for it or not!”

{Sifat as-Safwah (v. 4 p. 270)}

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Abu Ad-Darda’ narrated that :
the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “It used to be from the supplication of Dawud that he would say: ‘O Allah, indeed, I ask You for Your love and the love of those who love You, and for the action that will cause me to attain Your love, O Allah, make Your love more beloved to me than myself, my family and cold water (Allāhumma innī as’aluka ḥubbaka wa ḥubba man yuḥibbuka wal-`amalalladhī yuballighunī ḥubbak. Allāhummaj`al ḥubbaka aḥabba ilaiyya min nafsī, wa ahlī wa minal-mā’il-bārid) He said: “And when the Prophet (ﷺ) would mention Dawud, he would narrate about him, saying: “He was the best in worship out of all men.”

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3490

“اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ حُبَّكَ وَحُبَّ مَنْ يُحِبُّكَ وَالْعَمَلَ الَّذِي يُبَلِّغُنِي حُبَّكَ اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ حُبَّكَ أَحَبَّ إِلَىَّ مِنْ نَفْسِي وَأَهْلِي وَمِنَ الْمَاءِ الْبَارِدِ ‏"‏

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“Nowhere, perhaps, did the triumph of Islam present a more brilliant contrast to the barbarities of the Crusaders than in the Holy Land under Muslim rule, where Jews and Christians lived in security.”

Thomas W. Arnold, The Preaching of Islam, p. 60

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“The Emperor Frederick II was so impressed by Muslim learning that he corresponded in Arabic, maintained Muslim scholars in his court, and even employed them to build observatories and hospitals.”

Bernard Lewis, The Muslim Discovery of Europe, p. 71

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“At a time when Christian Europe had barely a handful of literate men outside monasteries, Muslim Spain had hundreds of public libraries, some with over 400,000 volumes.”

Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: The Age of Faith, p. 461

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“The people of Córdoba had baths in every street, while the Christian kings of Europe lived in cold and filth… What the Moors taught Europe was not only science, but civilization itself.”

Stanley Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain, Ch. 1

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