Inspiration from Past & Present
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
—’Umar Ibn Al-Khattab [d. 23AH]
At-tabyan fee Adab Hamlat al-Qur’an, by an-Nawawi, p. 60; Fara’id al-Kalam, p. 163.
(Read on pg 333, Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi, ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab: His Life & Times Vol. 1. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2007 .)
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
—’Umar Ibn Al-Khattab [d. 23AH]
Miftah Dar as-Sa’adah, 1/122; Fara’id al-Kalam, p. 157.
(Read on pg. 333, Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi, ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab: His Life & Times Vol. 1. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2007 .)
If a man comes out of his house carrying a burden of sins like the mountains of Tihamah, then when he hears some knowledge he fears Allah and repents, he will go back home with no sins on him. So do not forsake the gatherings of the scholars.
—’Umar Ibn Al-Khattab [d. 23AH]
Miftah Dar as-Sa’adah, 1/122; Fara’id al-Kalam, p. 135.
(Read on pg 332, Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallabi, ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattab: His Life & Times Vol. 1. International Islamic Publishing House. Riyadh:2007 .)
No man accomplishes an action but that God, Most High, clothes whim with its mantle- if good, then with good and if evil, with evil.
—’Uthman ibn ‘Affan [d. 35AH]
(Read on pg 35, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, The Invocation of God. The Islamic Texts Society. UK:2000 .)