Islamic Wedding Quotes & Sayings

An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves. — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

My father then presented Honour with a cheque,

"This is from our family for you, only you. Put it in a bank and if my son ever treats you badly, use this to leave the idiot," he said.

I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.

The haque mehr was traditionally given to the bride on the wedding day by the groom, it was an amount that would be hers for her lifetime to keep in case things went wrong and she needed to stand on her own two feet.

Dad had done his little trickery, and in his head and everyone else's, we had done all that was required from a nikah. — Ruth Ahmed

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment. — Carl Andre

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. — Muhammad Iqbal

I was in the middle before I knew I had begun. — Jane Austen

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.
And men take care that they should. — Jane Austen

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring. — A.R. Rahman

They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way. — Alice Walker

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front. — Dave Evans

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras

The Lord is my shepherd
I shall not want him for long
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
and there are no green pastures
He leadeth me beside still waters
and still waters run deep — Ernest Hemingway,