I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the…

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are…

— Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been…

— John Bagot Glubb

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

— Umar

The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has…

— Graeme Smith

Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has…

— Annia Ciezadlo

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their…

— Robertson Davies

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two…

— Nils Kjaer

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.

— Umar

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.

— Khalid ibn al-Walid