Umar Quotes
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
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Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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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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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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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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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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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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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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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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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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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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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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He who does now know evil will fall into it.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.