Ibn Taymiyyah said: "Everyone who disobeys Allah is ignorant, and everyone who fears Him has knowledge."

● {ابن تيمية فتاوي ٧/٢٢}

قل لمن يرجو في الحياةِ خلودًا لستَ يا عافاك الإلهُ سميعا

فلقد قامتِ المنايا على مِنـْـبَرِ وعظٍ ، وأنذرتكَ وقوعا

فتغافلتَ ، ما إخالُكَ إلا عن قليلٍ مباغَتًا وصريعا

Say to one who hopes for eternity in this life: "You, may God grant you wellbeing, do not hear!

For death has stood atop a pulpit of advice And warned you of its occurrence.

Yet you paid no heed—it will not bypass you Except briefly, suddenly felling you."

Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said,

“A prostitute had once been forgiven. She passed by a dog panting near a well. Thirst had nearly killed him, so she took off her sock, tied it to her veil, and drew up some water. Allah forgave her for that.”


📚: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3321, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2245

Ibn Mubārak رحمه الله said: "The example of the one who seeks his religion without isnād is akin to the one who goes up to the roof without a ladder."

● {Adab Al-Imiā Wal-Istimiā, Vol 6, P.1}

Imām Mālik bin Anas رحمه الله said: "Whoever introduces an innovation into Islam thinking that it is good is implying that Muḥammad ﷺ betrayed his mission, because Allāh says:

"......This day, I have perfected your religion for you..." ● {5:3}

So, whatever was not part of the religion on that day, cannot be part of the religion today."

● [الاعتصام الامام الشاطبي ج ١، ص ٦٤-٦٥]

Sheikh Salih Al-Fawzān said: "The truth seeker is happy with the advice (he receives) and being alerted about the mistake (he commits)."

● {شرح كتاب البودية صحفة ٢٥٢}

Woman of Dreams

"Whoever marries a woman that wears the niqab and gloves, and does not watch TV, and aligns herself with the people of truth, and does not go to the hammam (public baths; pools, saunas), and does not complain too much, has obtained the woman of dreams."

[Shaykh Muqbil Ibn Hadi al-Wadi’ee (رحمه الله), Al-Imām al-Alma’i, pg. 248]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

‎“Knowledge opens the heart and expands it until it becomes wider than the world, while ignorance constricts the heart and restrains it.

Each time the person's knowledge widens, his heart expands. This does not occur with all knowledge; rather, this occurs with the knowledge that is the inheritance of the Messenger of Allāh. This is beneficial knowledge.

The people of knowledge have the widest chests, the broadest hearts, and the best manners.”

[One Hundred Pieces of Advice | Pg. 45]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“Whoever is shy from Allāh to sin, Allāh is shy from punishing him on the day he meets him.”

[Ad-Da' Wad-Dawa]

Al-Hasan Al-Jarawī رحمه الله said:

“He who is not moved by the Quran and death, if the mountains clashed before him, he will never be moved!”

[Tabaqāt Al-Hanābilah: 1/362]

"And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed."

{24:31}

"It is not permissible for a Muslimah to uncover any part of her body in front of a kafirah."

[Tafseer al-Qurtubi (v. 12, p. 233)]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

“Courage opens the heart; thus, the courageous have the widest hearts while the cowards have the most constricted hearts.

They have no joy, no happiness, and no pleasure except like that of animals. As for the delight of the soul, then the cowards are devoid of this.

The condition in which the person will be in his grave will reflect the condition of his heart. It will either be bliss or punishment.”

[One Hundred Pieces of Advice | Pg. 47]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

“There is a connection between the eyes and the heart — whatever one of them engages in, the other will engage in. When one is good, the other will be good; when one is corrupt, the other will be corrupt. If the heart is corrupt, the eyes will be corrupt, and if the eyes are corrupt, the heart will be corrupt. His heart becomes like a dunghill, which is the place of filth and impurities.

Consequently, his heart is not suitable to house knowledge of Allāh, love for Him, devotion towards Him, and happiness from nearness to Him. It is only suitable to house its opposite.”

[One Hundred Pieces of Advice | Pg. 31]

Sheikh Uthaymin (‏رحمه الله) mentioned the following:

[من طهر قلبه من المعاصي كان أفهم للقرآن ومن تنجس قلبه بالمعاصي كان أبعد فهما عن القرآن.]

"Whoever purifies his heart from sins will have more understanding of the Quran, but whoever sullies his heart with sins will be further from understanding the Quran."

[Al-Qawl al-Mufeed 'alā Kitab al-Tawheed 2/37]

Shaykh Saalih al Fawzan (حفظه الله) said:
“The speech of the scholars is not a proof. Proofs are verses from the Quran or Hadeeths of the Messenger (ﷺ). As for the speech of the scholars, then their speech explains and clarifies the verses from the Quran and the Hadeeths of the messenger, and it is not that their speech is a proof in itself.”
[Shaykh Saleh Al-Fawzaan, Expl. Al-Usool Al-Thalaatha, pg. 24]

Imām Maalik (رحمة الله) said:
“Every statement will either be accepted (when it is in agreement with the Quran and Sunnah on the understanding of the Salaf) or rejected (when it opposes that) except for the speech of the inhabitant of this grave (of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) since he was protected by Allah from making mistakes in the religion, his speech is never rejected)”
[Siyaar ‘Alaam an-Nubalaa 8/93]

Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saleh Al Uthaymeen (رحمة الله) said:
“A person who only sticks to one Imaam no matter what and ignores everything else has taken this Imaam as a Messenger.”
[Sharah Ul-Usool, Pg. 599]

Shaykh Muhammad Nasir ud Deen Al Albanee (رحمة الله) said:
“So aspire, O Muslim, to know your Islaam from your Lord’s Book and your Prophet’s (ﷺ) Sunnah. And don’t say, ‘So and so said.’ For verily, the Truth is not known by the men nay, know the Truth, you will recognize the men.”
[As-Saheehah, 5/350]

‘Umar ibn al-Khattab expressing his fear of being questioned by Allaah:

"I wish I was not created.
I wish my mother never delivered me.
I wish I was nothing.
I wish I was totally forgotten."

● {Az-Zuhd of Ibn al-Mubarak (235)}

"Do not ask children of Ādam of any need.

Ask the One whose doors are never closed.

Allāh gets angry if you abandon asking Him,

But the children of Ādam get angry when they are asked."

['al-Uzlah | p.67]

﴾فَبِأَىِّ ءَالاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَان﴿ِ

This says: Then which of the blessings of your Lord will you both deny?

This means: Favors that are obvious to you while you are surrounded by them, you cannot deny or reject them.

So we say, just as the believers among the Jinns said: “O Allaah! None of Your favors do we deny. All praise is due to you!”

● {تفسير ابن كثير ٥٥:١٣}