Umar Quotes
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As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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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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Luxury is an obstacle, and so is the fatness of the body.
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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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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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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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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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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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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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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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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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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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Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.
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He who does now know evil will fall into it.
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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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Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.