Umar Quotes
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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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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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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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Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
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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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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
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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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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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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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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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If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
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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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Do not accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
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He who does now know evil will fall into it.
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Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.
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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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Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.