Sep 28, 2013

Pearls of Islamic Scholars [7]

Abu Darda Al Ansari (radiyAllahu'anhu):
“Whoever knocks on the door then it is on the brink of it being opened up for him, and whoever makes a lot of du’aa then his supplication is on the verge of being answered.”
(Ash-Shu'ab, 2/1142)

Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah:
“A person who acts without knowledge is like someone who travels without a guide, and it is known that a person like this will more likely be destroyed than saved.”
(Miftah Daar As-Sa'ada, 1/82-83)

I have never struggled to rectify something that is more difficult to overcome than my soul; sometimes I win, and sometimes I lose.
—Sufyān al-Thawrī [d. 161H/778CE]
(Read on pg 86, Salaahud-Deen ibn ‘Alee ibn ‘Abdul-Maujood, The Biography of Sufyaan Ath-Thauree. Darussalam Publishers. Riyadh:2005.)