Nafs Quotes
- Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. — Hassan al-Banna
- There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of… — Umar
- Change your 'Nafs', change the world. — Nouman Ali Khan
- Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. — Rumi
- My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. — Yasmin Mogahed
- If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient. — Said Nursi
- Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast… — Busiri
- To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs. — Timothy Winter
- The good jihaad is the jihaad of the one who strives against his own self (jihaad al-nafs) for the sake of Allah. — Babloo