Umar Quotes
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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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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No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
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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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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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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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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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As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
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Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
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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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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
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He who does now know evil will fall into it.
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
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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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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
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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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Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future
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Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.