Salman al-Ouda famous quotes

You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.
-- Salman al-Ouda

#Wish #Bears #Able

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
-- Salman al-Ouda

#Accepting #Decree #Insight

The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.
-- Salman al-Ouda

#Prayer #Heart #Blessing

Allah's plan is better than your dreams.
-- Salman al-Ouda

#Dream #Decree #Plans

The Quran refers to “those who followed him in the hour of difficulty.” How beautiful the Quran’s expressions are. It refers to difficulty as an hour that passes by quickly and then is over, not as something that overwhelms one’s whole life
-- Salman al-Ouda

#Beautiful #Expression #Quran

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought