The best Quotes by Ibn Taymiyyah

Don't depend too much on anyone in this world, because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Trust is earned - I can't just magically hand it over.

Trust no one. Not even your own feelings.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Trust is a delicate flower. Once destroyed, it's not easily coming back.

Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Shadows, remember? They hear everything, see everything, conceal everything.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

But my mum told me it's not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that!

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

True love stories never have endings.

Someone once told me: Every song has an ending, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

A moderate Islam? That's an objection.

Apparently, Islam can be a sensitive topic, and the producers say if I don't follow this script to the letter, there's a chance I'll cause a serious international incident.

Azucena de Muñoz: "The rules state, no accessories of any kind are permitted."
Nadia: "My hijab isn't an accessory."

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

There's nothing that stupid men fear more than intelligent women.

Of course it's hard to understand women...
if you think with your dick instead of your heart.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.