~*~From the Blessed Lips of the Pious ~*~

• Subjects are not the slaves of their rulers, they remain as free as they be when they are born to their mothers. (Hazrat Umar - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• Moderation is most meritorious in affluence and pardon most praise-worthy in power. (Hazrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• A student who learns half-heartedly and ungratefully can never succeed. A student who is humble and weak often reaches his goal. (Imam Shaafa'i - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• The test of a true Muslim's mind is that it is always, and to all intents, strictly obedient to the Will of Allah, is constantly afraid of behaving in a manner which is apt to displease Him resulting in the withdrawing of His Grace. (Hazrat Kwaja Moinuddin Chisti - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• If patience and gratitude had been two she-camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode. (Hazrat Umar Farooq - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• A person is not worthy of leadership in any capacity at all if he has never memorised or recited the Quran on a regular basis and is not familiar with the Hadith at a recognised level. This has to be so because all knowledge for the sincere seeker is totally bound within our Holy Book and the Sunnah of our beloved Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam). (Hazrat Junaid Baghdadi -radi Allahu anhu) 
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• If you come across anyone who claims to have divine inner experiences which at the same time contravene the limits imposed by the Holy Shariah, then, ignore him and never go near him. (Hazrat Abu al-Hussain Noori - radi Allahu anhu) 
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• The believer may be cheated out of his property, but never out of his religion. And while the religion of the hypocrite could easily be taken away from him, it is impossible to take away any of his property. (Hazrat Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi - radi Allahu anhuma) 
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• The honour of man is his learning. Wise people are the torches, lighting the path of truth. In knowledge lies man's opportunity for immortality. While man may die, wisdom lives eternally. (Hazrat Ali Murtudha radi Allahu anhu) 
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• Sleep with the remembrance of death, and rise with the thought that you will not live long. (Hazrat Uwais al-Qarni radi Allahu anhu) 
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• To sit in the company of pious people is better than doing good and to sit in the company of evil (immoral) people is worse than doing evil. (Hazrat Khwaja Ghareeb-un-Nawaaz radi Allahu anhu) 
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• A person who does in secret what he would be ashamed to do in public has no self-respect; in fact, he does not even consider himself being a human being. (Hazrat Dhu Nun al-Misri radi Allahu anhu)