Omar Suleiman > Quotes

“The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.”
― Omar Suleiman

“Allah loves us just for trying. He loves us just for the effort”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“If Allah allows us to make supplication then know that we are in a good place, that we are in a relationship with Allah.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“We can’t be patient with how things are going in life until we understand that there is someone who has control of our life.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“Allah is close to us and Allah will answer us.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“any time Allah allows you to make a request, know that Allah wants to give you something because He wouldn’t have allowed you to make that duʿā’ unless He wanted to answer that duʿā”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“It's not about asking Allah (glorified and exalted is He) for patience, which is a great quality to have, or to be in the station of the patient, which is a great station to be in, but in this situation, when you're going through a hardship, instead of asking Him for patience to go through that hardship, ask Allah to remove that hardship from you and demonstrate patience in your very being.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“Another narration of Imam Aḥmad (Allah’s mercy be upon him) adds that “the same way He loves that you avoid the things that are acts of disobedience to Him. Allah loves that you accept His gifts, that you take the easy way He has given you, that you take His concessions.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“Allah loves those who trust Him. We ask Allah to make us amongst them. Āmīn.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“If you complain that Allah is testing you too much, you're failing the test.”
― Omar Suleiman

“After Yūnus had prayed to Allah: لَّا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا أَنتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ, There is no god but You, how perfect You are and I was amongst the wrong-doers.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“we sin out of a feeling of emptiness and we sin when there is a void that’s not properly being filled.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“O Allah, protect me from the greed of my soul!”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“They measure themselves by different standards: they spend in ease, and they spend in hardship, وَالْكَاظِمِينَ الْغَيْظ, and they swallow their anger even when their anger is justified. They don’t just avoid doing the things that are haram in anger, but they also make sure that they swallow their anger so that it is used only for good. They don’t use their anger for things that are petty. They don’t use their anger for things that are displeasing to Allah. They control their anger even when it may be justified because they want Allah to withhold His anger from them. وَالْعَافِينَ عَنِ النَّاسِ, And they pardon people even when they are in the right.”
― Suleiman Omar, Allah Loves

“What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.”
― Omar Suleiman

“If Allah allows us to make supplication then know that we are in a good place, that we are in a relationship with Allah. So, the ability to call upon Him, knowing that Allah loves to hear me, despite how broken I am, despite how sinful I am, despite how distant I am with Allah, yet He loves to hear me—in that there is a blessing.”
― Omar Suleiman, Allah Loves

“The soul rises to its best form when it connects to Allah (glorified and exalted is He) the most”
― Omar Suleiman, Repentance: Breaking the Habit of Sin

“May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) grant us the best of this life and the best of the Hereafter and protect us from the punishment of Hell. May He grant us the highest station of seekers, and the highest station of the patient, and the highest station of the grateful without putting us through trials that could potentially compromise that patience and allow us to lose out on that reward. Āmīn.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“Our goal is not just to reach a place in which we will not be punished by Allah – that is an example of having a bad assumption of Allah (glorified and exalted is He). Rather, our goal is to get to a place where Allah is actually pleased with us, where we long for our meeting with Allah (glorified and exalted is He), and where we expect the best reward from Him.”
― Omar Suleiman, Repentance: Breaking the Habit of Sin

“O Allah, the stars have vanished, the eyes have slept, the kings have locked their doors, and Your door remains open. Every lover has found privacy with their beloved, and here I am standing before You.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“Ibn Taymiyyah said that Allah will uphold a just nation even if it is a disbelieving nation, and Allah will destroy an unjust nation even if it is a believing nation.”
― Omar Suleiman, 40 on Justice: The Prophetic Voice on Social Reform

“if I’m protected from the greed of my soul then I would not steal, I would not commit adultery, and I would not do anything evil’.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow all of us to be beneficial to others without losing ourselves, and may He guide us and guide through us, and rectify our hearts and rectify other people’s hearts and through us help to rectify others. May Allah (glorified and exalted is He) allow us to enter His Paradise by His mercy and accept our good deeds and forgive our sins. Āmīn.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“the same emotion that triggers exploitation in the financial sense allows a person to do things that are well beyond the bounds of decency, for themselves and their souls.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“My Lord, my sins are enormous, but a little
of Your forgiveness is greater than all of them.
O Allah, so erase with a little of Your forgiveness
the enormity of my sins.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious

“Our goal is not just to reach a
place in which we will not be punished by Allah – that is an example of having a
bad assumption of Allah (glorified and exalted is He). Rather, our goal is to get to
a place where Allah is actually pleased with us, where we long for our meeting
with Allah (glorified and exalted is He), and where we expect the best reward from
Him.”
― Omar Suleiman, Repentance: Breaking the Habit of Sin

“O Allah! I am a witness to Your power, now I want You to show me Your mercy and Your pardon, and to show us Your safety’.”
― Omar Suleiman, Prayers of the Pious