Umm Isa > Umm Isa's Quotes

“He is mistaken about Islam, whoever says: ''The religion of Islam is a religion of equality!’’ Rather, the religion of Islam is the religion of justice, and that combines between two equals and separates between two distinctions. Otherwise, if a person intends ''justice’’ when using the word ''equality,’’ then he will be considered correct in the meaning, but mistaken in the expression. This is why most of what is related in the Qur’an (in this matter) is a negation of equality”
― محمد صالح العثيمين

“Crying out and complaining to Allâh does not mean that a person has no patience.

In the Qur’ân, we find Ya‘qûb (عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ) saying: “My course is comely patience (sabrun jamîl)” (Yûsuf 12:83), but his love and longing for his lost son Yûsuf made him say: “How great is my grief for Yûsuf” (Yûsuf 12:83).

Sabrun jamîl refers to patience with no complaint to other people. Complaining to Allâh does not cancel out patience, as Ya‘qûb said: “I only complain of my distraction and anguish to Allâh” (Yûsuf 12:86).”
― Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Patience and Gratitude

“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah”
― Imam Ibn al-Qayyim

“The strange thing, dear reader, is that the materialistic modern ignorance we live in which has stripped women of comfort, happiness and dignity considers the Prophet's (ﷺ) marriage to Aisha as a shubha (allegation) to be defended because of her young age. One truly wonders how the corrupt dare to challenge the pure, and how failure dares to disparage success! What is strange is that we Muslims accept this labeling of the most successful and beautiful marriage as a shubha! We add it to the group of shubha(s) and start the case for defense. We should have asked from the beginning, "What specifically is the problem, so that we can respond to it?" Why do you –objectors– assume that we accept your standards?!

It is strange that we allow Islam haters who defeat us militarily in every despicable way to also defeat us psychologically by occupying our minds and souls. So here we are: Judging our religion, our history, and our Prophet's (ﷺ) tradition according to our opponents' standards!

Accepting the classification of a part of religion as a shubha means losing half the battle. If you try to defend it using the standards of your opponent you lose the other half!”
― Eyad Qunaibi, ندى تشتكي لعائشة

“The Prophet (ﷺ) married Aisha when she was young, developed the capabilities she had, and produced the most beautiful female personality: balanced, confident, strong, reliable, pious, satisfied, and truly guided. He equipped her with knowledge and whatever is necessary to develop a sound character from childhood. Allah gave her years to live after the Prophet (ﷺ) and she remained a beacon emanating knowledge to the world until the Day of Judgment.”
― Eyad Qunaibi, ندى تشتكي لعائشة

“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Homemaking is not something that stands in the way of our deeper fulfillment; it becomes the ground that feeds it.”
― Shannon Hayes

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.”
― Christine Caine

“Remember that it is harder to tame the self than to tame wild beasts. In fact, when wild beasts are shut inside cages ordered for them by kings, they cannot harm you. But the self, even if it were put in a prison, could not be guaranteed to do you no harm.”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm

“You should treat company like a fire. Warm yourself but do not fall in; [''You may draw near but without going right in''].”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“If you take pride in your wealth, that is the worst degree of pride. Think of all the vile and debauched men who are richer than you and do not take pride in something in which they outdo you. You should realize that it is stupid to take pride in possessions; riches are burdens which bring no benefit until you dispose of them and spend them according to the law. Wealth is also ephemeral and fleeing. It can escape, and you can find it again anywhere, perhaps in someone else’s hands, perhaps in the hands of your enemy. To take pride in your wealth is stupid, to put your trust in good fortune is a trap and a weakness.”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm

“I end this note with a saying of a great scholar, Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, who once said, "Reading is really Allah's early reward to the believer; a first reward before the Day of Judgment!”
― Abdul Karim Bakkar, A Child Reads

“Better a dog of the Ait Atta, than Sultan under the French.’’

— Saying of the Middle Atlas”
― Carleton S. Coon, The Riffian

“A combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human and only thin-soil wastelands to do it in.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better “fit” for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“We may well have numerous failed states in the Muslim world, I’ll give you that. But what we don’t have are failed societies. That’s a phenomenon that we only see in the West. Our societies are functioning, even if our governments are not, even if we don’t have state-imposed order. We still have functioning societies, we still have moral societies. Our people are still following a moral code. Can’t say the same about the West. And it’s interesting to me that the West uses this as an insult to the Muslim world, ‘‘Oh, look you have failed states’’. First of all, in most instances, you collapsed our states. And second of all, we can still function without them. Can you?”
― Shahid Bolsen

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A man who is a miser with his knowledge is worse than a man who is a miser with his money, for the latter is afraid of using up what he possesses but the former is being mean with something which does not get used up and is not lost when it is given away”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm

“To a well-born man, honour is dearer than gold. A well-born man should use his gold to protect his body, his body to protect his soul, his soul to protect his honour, and his honour to defend his religion. But he must never sacrifice his religion in defense of anything whatsoever.”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm

“If you think that your faults are slight, imagine someone else looking at them and think what he would say about them. Then you will feel shame and will know the measure of your faults, if you have the slightest discernment.”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm