Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni famous quotes

If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.
-- Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

I do not steal victory.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.