Umar Quotes

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• Do not be misled by hearing of anyone's reputation.
• Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.
• Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
• Do not overeat; that invites disease.
• If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
• He who wins through fraud is not a winner.
• The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
• When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
• Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more…
• No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after…
• Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
• To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
• Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from…
• Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.
• I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
• I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
• Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.
• Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future
• To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
• May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.

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