Inspiration from Past & Present
يَرَى الوَحشَةَ الأنسَ الأنِيسَ وَ يَهتَدِي
بِحَيتُ اْهتَدَت أُمُّ النُّجُومِ الشَّوَابِكِ
He deems the Wild the sweetest of friends, and travels on
where travels above him the Mother of all the clustered stars.
—Pre-Islamic poet Ta’abata Sharran
His (Jamal al-Dinal-Afghani) genius was to serve as the catalyst that fired the imaginations and moved the wills of a generation of Muslims.
John Esposito: Islam and Politics pg 49: Fourth Edition.
He who’s knowledge doesn’t cause him to weep, can be justifiably considered not to have been granted beneficial knowledge.
—virtuous saying
(Read on pg 51, Shaykh Husayn al-‘Awaayishah, Adorning Knowledge with Actions. Al-Hidaayah Publishing & Distribution Ltd. Birmingham: 1999.)
If a person appears to be a great saint of Allah and he is walking on water and saying prayers on a ‘sajjadah’ in the air, but if he is performing a single act against the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (s) then this person is not a saint of Allah; rather he is a devil.
—Shaykh al-Junaid al-Baghdādī [d. 297 AH]
(Read on pg 101, Dr. Gohar Mushtaq, The Intelligent Heart, The Pure Heart. Ta-Ha Publishers. London: 2006.)