Prophet Muhammad Quotes (269 Quotes)

What is Faith When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin When a thing disturbs (the peace of) your heart, give it up.

Acquire knowledge. It enableth its posessor to distinguish right from wrong it lighteth the way to Heave it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless it guideth us to happiness it sustaineth us in misery it is an ornament among friends, and an armour against enemies.

All kinds of modesty are best.

As you will be so will you have rulers put over you.

Remember often the destroyer and cutter off of delights, which is death.

The man I most emulate is a Muslim unencumbered a man of small family, and little money, a performer of prayers and a perfect worshipper of God in private, one who is unknown, and hath enough to supply his wants, and when he dieth, he will leave few women to cry for him, and few legacies.

Muhammad said, three days before his death, 'Not one of you must die but with resignation to the will of God, and with hope for his beneficence and pardon.'

God saith, 'The person I hold as a beloved, I am his hearing by which he heareth, and I am his sight by which he seeth, and I am his hands by which he holdeth, and I am his feet by which he walketh.'

A sincere repenter of faults is like him who hath committed none.

The exercise of religious duty will not atone for the fault of an abusive tongue.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

That person is not of us who inviteth others to aid him in oppression and he is not of us who fighteth for his tribe in injustice and he is not of us who dieth in assisting his tribe in tyranny.

The grave is the first stage of the journey into eternity.

Muhammad slep upon a mat, and got up very marked on the body by it and someone said, 'O Messenger of God If thou hadst ordered me, I would have spread a soft bed for thee.' Lord Muhammad said, 'What business have I with the world I am a man on horseback, who standeth under the shade of a tree, then leaveth it.'

When you see a person, who has been given more than you in money and beauty then look to those who have been given less.

Do not ask for any high office, for if you are given it after asking, you will be left to discharge it yourself if you are given it without asking you will be helped to discharge it.

The best of almsgiving is that which springeth from the heart, and is uttered by the lips to soften the wounds of the injured.

The truest words spoken by any poet are those of Labid 'Know that everything is vanity save God.'

He who has in his heart as much faith as a grain of mustard seed will not enter hell, and he who has in his heart as much pride as a grain of mustard seed will not enter paradise.

'Teach me a work, such that when I perform it God and men will love me.' Muhammad said, 'Desire not the world, and God will love you and desire not what men have, and they will love you.

Keep yourselves far from envy it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood.

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishement.

Look to those inferior to yourselves, so that you may not hold God's benefits in contempt.

Prayer is the miraj (union with, or annihilation in, the Divine Essence by means of continual upward progress) of the Faithful.

No man hath believed perfectly, until he wish for his brother that which he wisheth for himself.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

God saith, 'I fulfil the faith of whoso putteth his faith in Me and I am with him, and near him, when remembereth Me.'

Coarse talk does not come into anything without disgracing it, and modesty does not come into anything without adorning it.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

People will not sit remembering God without the angels surrounding them, mercy covering them, peace descending on them.

He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad and it is better to sit with the good than alone. And it is better to speak words to a speaker of knowledge than to remain silent and silence is better than bad words.

Whoever desireth the world and its riches, in a lawful manner, in order to withold himself from begging, and for a livelihood for his family, and for being kind to his neighbor, will come to God with his face bright as the full moon on the fourteenth night of the lunar month.

Charity that is concealeth appeaseth the wrath of God.

The Faithful do not die perhaps they become translated from this perishable world to the world of eternal existences.

He is true who protecteth his brethren both present and absent.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

Humility and courtesy are acts of piety.

Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers Making peace between one another enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots.

Shedding of blood will be the first matter about which judgment will be given on the Day of Resurrection.

Those who earn an honest living are the beloved of God.

Ye will not enter Paradise until ye have faith, and ye will not complete your faith until ye love one another.

Fear not the obloquy of the detractor in showing God's religion.

Convey to other persons none of my words, except those ye know of a surety.

If you spend (to help others), O son of Adam I God shall spend on you.

Being confined for room, the Apostle of god sat down upon his legs drawn up under his thighs. A desert Arab who was present said, 'What is this way of sitting' Muhammad said, 'Verily God hath made me a humble servant, and not a proud king.'

God said, 'I was a hidden treasure. I would fain be known. So I created Man.'

Torment not yourselves, lest God punish you.

The proof of a Muslims sincerity is that he payeth no heed to that which is not his business.

The proud will not enter Paradise, nor a violent speaker.