Umar Quotes
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
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Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.
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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Quran. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
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No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
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A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
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There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.
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When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.