Abi Quotes & Sayings

Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Be like the flower that gives its fragrance to even the hand that crushes it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Shhh..." He grips me closer to his body and then softly whispers in my ear, "I'm about to kiss you, and once I start I won't be able to stop. Just thought I should warn you. — Abi Ketner

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people. — Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman. — Alison Owen

Silence is the garden of thought. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Why the hell are you wearing it on your left hand? I swear to God, if you're married I'm going to kick your ass. I'm not joking. — Abi Ketner

Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The last thing I want is for you to be afraid of me. But I want you to trust me. I need you to trust me." He sighs and I hear the pain and confusion in his voice.

"Why?"

"I don't know why and it scares the hell out of me." He swallows hard...

Part of me screams for him to run for his own safety, but I don't want him to move. My heart begs... Please stay with me. Forever. — Abi Ketner

Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you. — Abi Ketner

Look at Abi Titmuss. This year she's been tied to more bed posts than David Blunkett's guide dog. — Jonathan Ross

Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft. — Hanna Abi Akl

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity. — Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST - BLUE GLUTTONY - ORANGE GREED - YELLOW SLOTH - BLACK WRATH - RED ENVY - GREEN PRIDE - PURPLE — Abi Ketner

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Justice is better than courage as if everyone is fair to others, then there will be no need for courage. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Your cure is within you, yet you do not sense it! Your sickness is from you, yet you do not see it! You consider yourself a small body; Yet encapsulated within you is the entire universe! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

So we'll take one day at a time, because each day is one day we didn't have before. — Abi Ketner

The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Please tell me how the hell was I not going to fall in love with her? Without a doubt, she's the most amazing person I've ever known. — Abi Ketner

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

You are as much able as you know — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Forgiving someone who hurt you is hard as hell to actually do, but in the end, it brings you the kind of relief you need to move on. Like when you close a book, so you can open up a new one. — Abi Ketner

If you don't like chickens I don't like you — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Every breath you take is a step towards death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you want to test someone's character, give him respect. If he has good character, he will respect you more, if he has bad character, he will think is the best of all. — Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Treat everyone equal. We are all born the same and die the same. — Abi Ketner

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

You can overcome anything...short of death. — Abi Ketner

All I want is to help you heal. To hold you when you cry. To glue you back together when you break apart. I want to reach out my hand and help you back up. — Abi Ketner

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins. — Aisha Bint Abi Bakr

The emaan of a person cannot be true until he has more trust in that which is in Allah's Hands than that which is in his own hands. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I wasn't actually sleeping, more like daydreaming with my eyes closed. — Abi Ketner

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about. — Abi Morgan

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas. — Abi Morgan

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Work for a Better Life as if you live forever,
And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Beware of the flight of Blessings,
For nothing that runs away is returned. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people) — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

If you find that somebody is not grateful for all that you have done for him, then do not get disappointed because often you will find that someone else feels under your obligation though you have done nothing for him and thus your good deeds will be compensated, and Allah will reward you for your goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

At what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are on the inside. — Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki

How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Work for this world as if you will live forever and work for the here-after as if you will die tomorrow. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are inside? — Abi Ketner

And hope was an oath I swore never to take. — Hanna Abi Akl

Justice is putting everything in its proper place — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right? — Abi Ketner

He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The most precious wealth is wisdom, and the most miserable poverty is stupidity. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation ... Do not ever say, 'I have been given authority' or 'My command should be obeyed.' Because it corrupts the heart, consumes one's faith, and invites calamities. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib