Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

• My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Heart, Knowing, Missing

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• All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Worry

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• Knowledge is not what is memorised.
  Knowledge is what benefits.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Benefits

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• Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Easy

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• You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Body

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• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

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• How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Land, Doe

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• My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Inspiration, Grace, Islam

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• To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Blessing, Able

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• Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Accompany You, Earth

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• Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sincere

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• To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wise, Wisdom, Brother

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• I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
  So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
  He informed me that knowledge is a light,
  And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Light

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• When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow
  I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
  My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness
  I found Your forgiveness to be greater

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islam, Virtue, Virtuous

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• Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Wealth, Accumulation

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• Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Islamic, Quran

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• There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah - a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Book, Islamic

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• The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Brother, Islamic

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