Habib Quotes & Sayings

Regardless of where I have been, I choose to step into my loving. — Habib Sadeghi

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page. — Habib Bourguiba

Why we fear death ... life is more scary ... — Raheel Habib

There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning. — Habib Sadeghi

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe anything simply because it is spoken of and rumored by many. Do not believe anything simply because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions simply because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live by it. - Buddha, founder of Buddhism — Habib Sadeghi

When you are able to love someone unconditionally , without reason, you can begin to understand God's unconditional love for you. — Habib Ali Al-Jifri

What you think of me is none of my business. Anyone can think anything they want about you, and it has absolutely NO impact on your personal life or well-being because it is impossible for them to think for you. The thoughts and opinions of others have no power over us unless we choose to believe them and make them part of our personal truth. — Habib Sadeghi

Hatred in your heart for others is always weakness. — Habib Ali Al-Jifri

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned. — Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf

While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched. — Habib Bourguiba

Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God. — Habib Ali Al-Jifri

The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative. — Habib Ali Al-Jifri

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious. — Habib Bourguiba

Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting. — Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf

When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship ... — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Sometimes you care and love people but they didn't realize it. they realize it, when you stop caring or loving them but then, everything is meaningless — Qasim Habib

We bring back to us everything we put out into the world. That includes every action we take and thinking a thought is taking an action - a very big one, because life isn't so much dynamic as it is magnetic. We draw things to us. Life doesn't happen to us. It happens through us. You — Habib Sadeghi

Our pets love us unconditionally. Because they are conscious but not "self-conscious," it's impossible for them to judge. They do not see us through the warped lens of our self-perceptions. They see us as courageous protectors and loving providers. They see in us all the qualities that really matter. What difference does it make to them if you got fired from your job? None. What difference does it make to them if you gained 20 lbs. back from your last diet? None. That's because our pets love and accept us at the soul level, in a way that's primal and simple - just like the universe itself. So, as silly as it might seem, the next time you're struggling with accepting an issue in your life, ask yourself: Will this matter to my dog? If not, then it shouldn't matter to you. — Habib Sadeghi

Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Beauty isn't worth thinking about. What's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. - Garrison Keillor, American humorist — Habib Sadeghi

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

A true Muslim is like rain, wherever it falls, it will benefit. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states.
Know that He cares for those who turn to Him; relieves difficulties for them; is there for them in every circumstance, condition and change; and He shelters them in His Mercy, Grace, Pardon and Forgiveness. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

When a Muslim becomes a Christian, he or she is radical in their faith. The cost to serve Jesus is high, but there is so much joy and freedom in choosing Him that even if it costs you your life, the reward far outweighs the sacrifice. My sisters and I would wake at 4:00 a.m. to run to the prayer meeting, praying in heavenly language the whole way for our safety. Nothing would stop us - not rain, snow or war. We went because we loved to be free in the presence of God while at home we had to hide our faith. Our mother knew where we were going, but our father and brothers had no idea. They woke up early to go to work and assumed we were still asleep in our beds. — Samaa Habib

How you react to the issue, IS the issue. — Habib Sadeghi

All actions without love are just like dust in the air. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn't is like the living and the dead. — Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf

Don't think so deeply ... so taking decisions will be difficult ... — Raheel Habib

Researchers at the University Hospital in Helsinki Finland said that if Barbie were a real person, she'd lack the 17-22% body fat required to menstruate. — Habib Sadeghi

The amount of growth you experience in your life will always be directly proportionate to the amount of love or fear you give. — Habib Sadeghi

While fasting, people refrain from fulfilling their basic desires for food, drink and sexual relations. This shows them that their mission in this religion is to control their desires and not allow their desires to control them and to overcome their desires and not be overcome by them. By doing so they take the path of self-rectification and do not fall into that which corrupts them. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

If God is love, and nothing imperfect can exist in the presence of God; then healing is simply the process of bringing love to the places within us that are hurting. — Habib Sadeghi

As the crowd jeered and laughed, the leader of the attackers vowed meekly, "We will never touch girls again. Honest, we won't." Then the three men edged away from the smirking crowd. As my pulse rate returned to normal, I discovered I was as amazed as everyone else. Taking a deep breath, I thanked God for His help and miraculous assistance. Those who had seen the encounter continued to call out their approval and good wishes. "Well done, Superwoman!" "You should be a coach. You should be training all the young women and girls. Make the streets safe!" Eventually I would earn my black belt, become a coach and share the Gospel the same way that I was saved. — Samaa Habib

Hope believes there are greater forces against you but that there's a chance you might win out. Hope is wishing. Faith is knowing. The universe is listening. — Habib Sadeghi

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens." "Basically and profoundly, we are with the West. — Habib Bourguiba