Umar Quotes
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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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Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
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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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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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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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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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As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
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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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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
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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 accept gifts; [because] that is bribery.
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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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A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
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He who does now know evil will fall into it.
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The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
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Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.
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Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.
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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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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.