Quotes
Luminous quotes
God does not increase a servant with pardon except glory
وما زاد الله عبدا بعفو إلا عز
Go, you are free
إذهبوا فأنتم الطلقاء
If Al-Mut'im Ibn Adi had been alive and had spoken to me about these stinkers, I would have left them to him
لو كان المطعم ابن عدي حيا ثم كلّمني في هؤلاء النتنى لتركتهم له
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, has never blocked me since I converted to Islam, and he has never seen me without smiling in my face
ما حجبني النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم منذ أسلمت ولا رآني إلا تبسم في وجهي
The example of the five daily prayers is like a flowing river that floods at the door of one of you, from which he washes five times every day
مثل الصلوات الخمس كمثل نهر جار غمر على باب أحدكم يغتسل منه كل يوم خمس مرات
And what remains of that is tuberculosis
وما يبقي ذلك من الدرن
If a man were to embrace what he wanted except the world, then he should not embrace Islam until Islam is more beloved to him than the world and everything in it
إن كان الرجل ليسلم ما يريد إلا الدنيا فما يسلم حتى يكون الإسلام أحب إليه من الدنيا وما عليها
So I raced ahead of him, and I overtook him on my feet, and when I carried the meat, I overtook him, and he overtook me, and he said, “This is with that precedence.”
فسابقته فسبقته على رجلي فلما حملت اللحم سابقته فسبقني فقال هذه بتلك السبقة
Beware of Hellfire, even with pieces of a date
اتقوا النار ولو بشقق تمرة
O Aisha, seek refuge from the Fire, even if it is with pieces of a date, for it provides protection from the hungry as it protects from the full
يا عائشة استتري من النار ولو بشقق تمرة فانها تسد من الجائع مسدها من الشبعان
O Abazar If you cook broth, add more water And promise your neighbors
يا أباذر
إذا طبخت مرقة فأكثر ماءها
وتعاهد جيرانك
Let him honor his neighbor
فليكرم جاره
He does not harm his neighbor
فلا يؤذي جاره
Do not force him to invite him
لا تزرموه دعوه
These mosques are not suitable for any of this urine or filth. Rather, they are for the remembrance of God Almighty, prayer, and reading the Qur’an.
هذه المساجد لا تصلح لشيء من هذا البول ولا القذر إنما هي لذكر الله عز وجل والصلاة وقراءة القرآن
You were only sent to facilitate, and you were not sent to make it difficult
إنما بعثتم ميسرين ولم تبعثوا معسرين
Oh God, have mercy on me and Muhammad, and do not have mercy on anyone with us
اللهم ارحمني ومحمدا ولا ترحم معنا أحدا
I was petrified wide
لقد تحجرت واسعة
The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was the best of people and the bravest of people. The people of Medina were terrified one night and went out towards the sound. The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, met them and he was informed of the news. He was on a horse belonging to Abu Talha, naked and with a sword around his neck, and he said, “You did not observe, you did not observe.” Then he said, “We found it by the sea,” or he said, “It is by the sea,” meaning the horse, and it was slow.
كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أحسن الناس وأشجع الناس ولقد فزع أهل المدينة ليلة فخرجوا نحو الصوت فاستقبلهم النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وقد استبرأ الخبر وهو على فرس لأبي طلحة عري وفي عنقه السيف وهو يقول لم تراعوا لم تراعوا ثم قال وجدناه بحرا أو قال إنه لبحر يقصد الفرس وقد كان بطيئا
A black woman was cleaning the mosque, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, lost her and asked about her. They said, “She died.” He said, “Did you not have informed me?” He said, “It was as if they had belittled her matter.” He said, “Show me to her grave.” So they were shown and he prayed over her. Then he said, “This grave is full of darkness for its people, and God Almighty enlightens it for them through my prayers over them.”
إن امرأة سوداء كانت تقم المسجد أي تنظفه ففقدها رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فسأل عنها فقالوا ماتت قال أفلا كنتم آذنتموني أي أخبرتموني قال فكأنهم صغروا أمرها فقال دلوني على قبرها فدلوا فصلى عليها ثم قال إن هذه القبورة مملؤة ظلمة على أهلها وإن الله عز وجل ينورها لهم بصلاتي عليهم
The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was the best of people. I had a brother called Abu Umair. He was weaned. He said, “When the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, came and saw him,” he said, “Abu Umair, what did Al-Naghir do?” He said, “He used to play with him.”
كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أحسن الناس خلقا وكان لي أخ يقال له أبو عمير كان فطيما قال فكان إذا جاء رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فرآه قال أبا عمير ما فعل النغير قال فكان يلعب به
I saw a man with an apparent well-groomed appearance, a handsome face, good manners, who was not troubled by sluggishness, who was not disturbed by ruggedness, handsome and handsome. If he was silent, he was exalted with dignity, and if he spoke, he had splendor. He was the most noble of people, the most pompous of them from afar, and the best of them and the most beautiful of them, near him. He was sweet in his logic, without frivolity or nonsense, as if his girdle was beads, and he was composed of descendants.
رأيت رجلا ظاهر الوضاء أبلج الوجه حسن الخلق لم تعبه ثجلة ولم تزر به صعلة وسيم قسيم إذا صمت علاه الوقار وان تكلم علاه البهاء أجل الناس وأبهاهم من بعيد وأحسنهم وأحلاهم من قريب حلو المنطق فصل لا نزر ولا هذر كأن منطقه خرزات نظمن يتحدر
Imam Ibn Al-Mubarak, may God have mercy on him, was asked to sum up good behavior for us in one word, and he said: abandoning anger
سئل الإمام ابن المبارك رحمه الله اختصر لنا حسن الخلق في كلمة فقال ترك الغضب
In this prayer of ours, nothing of what people say is appropriate. Rather, it is glorification, glorification, and recitation of the Qur’an
إن صلاتنا هذه لا يصلح فيها شيء من كلام الناس إنما هي التكبير والتسبيح وتلاوة القرآن
The slave woman was one of the slave women of the people of Medina, so she could take the hand of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and take him wherever she wanted
كانت الأمة من إماء أهل المدينة لتأخذ بيد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فتنطلق به حيث شاءت
Save, may God protect you
احفظ الله يحفظك
So I said, “O Ibn Abbas, what about Thursday?” He said: “The pain of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, became more severe.”
فقلت يا ابن عباس وما يوم الخميس قال اشتد برسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وجعه
If I had turned my back, no one would have washed it except its women
لو استقبلت من أمري ما استدبرت ما غسله إلا نساؤه
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was shrouded in three white robes made of saraf, without a shirt or turban.
كفن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في ثلاثة أثواب بيض سحولية من كرسف ليس فيها قميص ولا عمامة
He was brought in the cold, but they turned him back and did not shroud him in it
قد أتي بالبرد ولكنهم ردوه ولم يكفنوه فيه
I did not believe the death of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, until I heard the voice of the preachers
ما صدقت بموت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حتى سمعت صوت الكرازين
God does not take a prophet except in the place where He would like him to be buried
ما قبض الله نبيا إلا في الموضع الذي يحب أن يدفن فيه
Do not make noise in the presence of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, whether he is alive or dead, or say anything like that
لا تصخبوا عند رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حيا ولا ميتا أو كلمة نحوها
They made a grave for me and placed a monument on the bricks, as was done to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace
الحدوا لي لحدا وانصبوا علي اللبن نصبا كما صنع برسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
The grave is for us and the hardship is for others
اللحد لنا والشق لغيرنا
We are with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, but our faces are the same, and when he died we looked like this and that.
إننا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وإنما وجهنا واحد فلما قبض نظرنا هاكذا وهاكذا
O Anas, it pleased your souls to throw dust on the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace
يا أنس أطابت نفوسكم أن تحثوا على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم التراب
When his breath came out, I never found a scent more pleasant than it
فلما خرجت نفسه لم أجد ريحا قط أطيب منها
Oh, his father, he answered a usury that called him, oh, from his Lord, his abode, oh, his father, to Gabriel, we mourn him, and his father, he answered a usury, who called him, and he asked him from his Lord what is below, and his father, to the Garden of Firdaus, his abode, and his father, to Gabriel, we mourn him.
يا أبتاه أجاب ربا دعاه يا أبتاه من جنة الفردوس مأواه يا أبتاه إلى جبريل ننعاه وأبتاه أجاب ربا دعاه وأبتاه من ربه ما أدناه وأبتاه إلى جنة الفردوس مأواه وأبتاه إلى جبريل ننعاه
You lied, but you are a man who feels temptation
كذبت بل أنت رجل تحوسك فتنة
By God, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not die. By God, nothing would occur to me except that, and God will send him to cut off the hands and feet of men.
والله ما مات رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم والله ما كان يقع في نفسي إلا ذاك وليبعثنه الله فليقطعن أيدي رجال وأرجلهم
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, will not die until God Almighty annihilates the hypocrites
إن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يموت حتى يفن الله عز وجل المنافقين
I do not hear anyone say that Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, has died. Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, did not die, but rather his Lord sent to him just as he was sent to Moses, so he remained for his people for forty nights.
لا أسمعن أحد يقول إن محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم قد مات إن محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يموت ولكن أرسل إليه ربه كما أرسل إلى موسى فلبث عن قومه أربعين ليلة
May my father and mother be sacrificed for you. By God, God will not bring you two deaths together. As for the death that was written for you, you have died
بأبي أنت وأمي والله لا يجمع الله عليك موتتين أما الموتة التي كتبت عليك فقد متها
We belong to God and to Him we shall return. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, died
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون مات رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
A friend of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, died
وا خليلا مات رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
O people, whoever among you worships Muhammad, then Muhammad is dead, and whoever worships God, then God is alive and does not die
أيها الناس من كان فيكم يعبد محمدا فإن محمدا قد مات ومن كان يعبد الله فإن الله حي لا يموت
Whoever loves to meet God, God will love to meet him
من أحب لقاء الله أحب الله لقاءه
No prophet was ever taken prisoner until he saw his seat in Paradise
إنه لم يقبض نبي قط حتى يرى مقعده من الجنة
O Abu Muwayhibah, I have been commanded to ask forgiveness for the people of Al-Baqi’
يا أبا مويهبة إني قد أمرت أن أستغفر لأهل البقيع
May what you have become easier for you than what people have become. Trials have come like pieces of a dark night, the last of which is followed by the beginning, and the afterlife is worse than the first.
ليهن لكم ما أصبحتم فيه مما أصبح فيه الناس أقبلت الفتن كقطع الليل المظلم يتبع آخرها أولها والآخرة شر من الأولى
O Abu Muwayhibah, I have been given the keys to the treasures of this world and eternity therein and then Paradise, so I was given a choice between that and meeting my Lord and Paradise.
يا أبا مويهبة إني قد أعطيت مفاتيح خزائن الدنيا والخلد فيها ثم الجنة فخيرت بين ذلك وبين لقاء ربي والجنة
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, died in my house, on my day, between my dawn and my prayer, and God combined my saliva with his. When he died, Abdul Rahman entered upon me with the siwak in his hand, and I was supporting the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and I saw him looking at him and I knew that he loved the siwak, so I said, “I will take it for you.”
توفي صلى الله عليه وسلم في بيتي وفي يومي وبين سحري ونحري وأن الله جمع بين ريقي وريقه عند موته دخل علي عبد الرحمن وبيده السواك وأنا مسندة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فرأيته ينظر إليه وعرفت أنه يحب السواك فقلت آخذه لك
I don't cry if I don't know that what God has is better for His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, but I cry because revelation has been cut off from heaven.
ما أبكي ألا أكون أعلم أن ما عند الله خير لرسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم ولكن أبكي أن الوحي قد انقطع من السماء
No prophet died until he saw his seat in Paradise and then came to life or had a choice
إنه لم يقبض نبي انقط حتى يرى مقعده من الجنة ثم يحيا أو يخير
And they were good companions
وَحَسُنَ أُولَٰئِكَ رَفِيقًا
Prayer Prayer Fear God in what your right hands possess
الصلاة الصلاة اتقوا الله فيما ملكت أيمنكم
One of God’s blessings upon me is that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, died in my house, on my day, between my dawn and my sacrifice, and that God combined my saliva with his upon his death.
إن من نعم الله علي أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم توفي في بيتي وفي يومي وبين سحري ونحري وأن الله جمع بين ريقي وريقه عند موته
And the intoxication of death has come with the truth. That is what you were deviating from.
وَجَاءَتْ سَكْرَةُ الْمَوْتِ بِالْحَقِّ ۖ ذَٰلِكَ مَا كُنتَ مِنْهُ تَحِيدُ
Oh God, help me in the throes of death
اللهم أعني على سكرات الموت