Suleiman 1 Quotes & Sayings

Imagine if your kids had to carry a ladder to climb an apartheid wall to get to school everyday. — Omar Suleiman

As part of his administrative reforms, Suleiman lowered taxes on peasants in his Empire. This led to immigration of Christian peasants who left the rest of Europe to live and work in the Ottoman Empire. — Firas Alkhateeb

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. — Omar Suleiman

I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment. — Elia Suleiman

I don't think there should be a Palestinian state because I don't believe in states. — Elia Suleiman

Your success does not depend on the failure of others. — Omar Suleiman

If you're not doing it for Allah, then don't expect any help from Allah. — Omar Suleiman

When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.. — Omar Suleiman

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others. — Omar Suleiman

In order to bring out the best in people, you need to give them your best. — Omar Suleiman

Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal. — Elia Suleiman

In trusting Allah, remember that what's best for you might be what's most painful. — Omar Suleiman

When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having. — Omar Suleiman

When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you'll notice that Allah has sent OTHER people who treat you even better. — Omar Suleiman

I don't drink. I don't kiss girls. These things do an athlete in. — Suleiman Nyambui

Good friends are hard to find so when you find one, hold on tight! — Omar Suleiman

Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah. — Omar Suleiman

For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century I had looked after Suleiman.My daily existence had been shaped by his needs, his companionship. Now I was free to do as I wished, but I found the freedom illusory, for what I wished for the most had been taken from me. They say, find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift. — Khaled Hosseini

Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying "I'm sorry". With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity. — Omar Suleiman

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow. — Vivienne Westwood

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others. — Omar Suleiman

Renew your intention EVERY day, EVERY time you pray, and EVERY time you are about to do a good deed or else shaytan will lead your heart and mind astray. — Omar Suleiman

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth. — Elia Suleiman

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker. — Elia Suleiman

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself. — Omar Suleiman

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well. — Elia Suleiman

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman. — Nostradamus

Being unashamedly Muslim while excelling in whatever you do is of the greatest forms of Dawah. — Omar Suleiman

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries. — Elia Suleiman

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you've done for others. — Omar Suleiman