He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Laughter, Friendship
When saluted with a salutation, salute the person with a better salutation, or at least return the same, for God taketh account of all things.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Courtesy
And when a man injures and oppresses you and deals unjustly with you, you should deal kindly with him and forgive him. This you will strike at the root of hatred and enmity and he who is your enemy will become your friend.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Forgiveness
Haste is of the devil.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Haste
Prayer carries us half-way to God, fasting brings us to the door of his palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Charity, Philosophy
There is a devil in every berry of the grape.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Wine
If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: God
O you who believe! let those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times; before the morning prayer, and when you put off your clothes at midday in summer, and after the prayer of then
—The Holy Quran
Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Creation
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Forgiveness
O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!
—The Holy Quran
Surely they who devour the possessions of orphans unjustly shall swallow down nothing but fire into their bellies, and shall broil in raging flames.
—The Holy Quran
So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Water
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Gardening
Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed the soul.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Gardening
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Adversity
And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning).
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Atheism
God loveth the clean.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Appearance
God helps those who persevere.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Courage, Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Heaven
Know that the life of this world is but a game and pastime and show and boast among you; and multiplying riches and children is like rain, whose vegetation delighteth the infidels – then they wither away, and thou seest them all yellow, and they become chaff.
—The Holy Quran
He will reward them, on account of their having persevered, with a garden and silk dress: reclining therein upon thrones, they shall not see either the sun or biting cold, and the shades of the garden shall be close upon them, and its fruits shall be within easy reach.
—The Holy Quran
The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Heaven
As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: “Peace!”
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Heaven
There is no God but God.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: God
Woe to those who pray, but are unmindful of their prayer, or who pray only to be seen by people.
—The Holy Quran
By means of water, we give life to everything.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Water, One liners
Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Men & Women, Men, Women
Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout; He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.
—The Holy Quran
What God writes on your forehead you will become.
—The Holy Quran
Topics: Destiny
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