{"quotes":[{"text":"We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.","author":"Umar ibn Al-Khattab","tags":["allah","god","honour","humiliation","islam"],"id":399,"author_id":"Umar+ibn+Al-Khattab"},{"text":"Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes isweeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah.","author":"Fakhr Al-Din Al-Razi","tags":["allah","fatalism","islam","quran","stoicism","worship"],"id":3048,"author_id":"Fakhr+Al-Din+Al-Razi"},{"text":"I'm a spiritual person, she said. 'I believe in Allah, you know, though I don't always call It 'Allah' and I pray the way I want to pray. Sometimes I just look out at the stars and this love-fear thing comes over me, you know? And sometimes I might sit in a Christian church listening to them talk about Isa with a book of Hafiz in my hands instead of the hymnal. And you know what, Yusef? Sometimes, every once in a while, I get out my old rug and I pray like Muhammad prayed. I never learned the shit in Arabic and my knees are uncovered, but if Allah has a problem with that then what kind of Allah do we believe in?","author":"Michael Muhammad Knight","tags":["allah","church","hafiz","islam","liberalism","muslim","prophet-muhammad-pbuh","spirituality"],"id":5407,"author_id":"Michael+Muhammad+Knight"},{"text":"In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (I.E. The Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah).","author":"Anonymous","tags":["allah","anger","creator","grace","help","mercy","praise","religion","thanks","worship"],"id":6254,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"The essence is HIS presence.","author":"Mahrukh","tags":["allah","beauty","god","nature"],"id":6989,"author_id":"Mahrukh"},{"text":"Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["advise","allah","ask","believer","buddha","christ","communion","daily","divine","faith","god","guidance","guide","help","helping","jesus","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","mantra","motto","motto-of-life","please","pray","prayer","religion","religious","service","show","spiritual","spirituality","universe","worship"],"id":8481,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small things in life as you start to acquire material things and amassing wealth.Jim Robinson.","author":"James Morris Robinson","tags":["allah","buddha","god","life","wealth-accumulation"],"id":14539,"author_id":"James+Morris+Robinson"},{"text":"Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.","author":"Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf","tags":["allah","god","hearts","islam","love","prophet-muhammad"],"id":21423,"author_id":"Habib+Kadhim+al-Saqqaf"},{"text":"On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["allah","god","muslim"],"id":24054,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Allah loves His creation. That’s why He rewards so greatly for serving them.","author":"Yasmin Mogahed","tags":["allah","creation","human","islam","reward"],"id":34131,"author_id":"Yasmin+Mogahed"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}