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Use this thread to share Islamic wealth/business related quotes and motivational quotes in general. :ia: it will be beneficial to everyone and Muslim businessmen especially :).
 
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"Convert your wealth into good deeds that will follow you into the hereafter by spending it. If not, it leaves you as you leave this world." - Mufti Menk

"Do not allow the love you have for your wealth exceed the love you have for Allah." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"Allah is the Provider. He can give you fruits outside of the season." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"Make sure your earnings are pure and clean. Otherwise they will add spiritual cholesterol, destroying you spiritually." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"If you're conscious of Allah, He will grant you sustenance from a direction you never even imagined." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"Be careful what you eat. Be careful not only that it must be halal, but go a step further. The money you use to buy it must also be halal." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"Your generosity and charity will never decrease your wealth. But if you don't give and are miserly, that will decrease your wealth." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"Don't ever compete or compare yourselves with what Allah has given others, because that is a form of ingratitude to Allah." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"If you want wealth, you need to get closer to the owner of wealth, Allah. Not to some individual who might be holding a few cheques for you." - Mufti Ismail Menk

"The result of thankfulness and gratitude is increase." - Mufti Ismail Menk
 
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Very useful thread brother فرحان خان : )
 
If you wish for your wealth to increase and your sins to be forgiven, then give in charity” - Muhammad ibn Salih al-`Uthaymeen

"When Allah blesses us with money, we depend on the money rather than Allah. We forget that the source of our provision is not and never was the money, but rather it was the giver of that money. Suddenly we’re willing to sell alcohol to avoid losing money in our business, or we need to take out loans with interest to feel secure. In so doing we are foolishly—and ironically—disobeying the Provider in order to protect the provision." - Yasmin Mogahed

Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said: "No doubt, it is better for a person to take a rope and proceed in the morning to the mountains and cut the wood and then sell it, and eat from this income and give alms from it than to ask others for something." Sahih Bukhari (Book #24, Hadith #558)

Nu’aym Ibn Abd Al-Rahman narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) said, “Nine-tenths of the sustenance (rizq) is derived from trade."

The Prophet (pbuh) said: “An honest and sincere businessman will be raised with the prophets, siddiqin and the shuhada.‟ (Hadith, Tirmidhi)

"When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less." (Muslim)
 
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Money is a test from Allah. What are you doing with all your wealth, buying new clothes and shoes or are you extending some to the poor?

When your money comes from Halal, even a minimum wage will be sufficient to live a good life. When your money comes from Haram, it will always feel as if it’s never enough, even if you are making millions.

Islam allows the rich to get richer but prevents the poor from getting poorer.

"As a Muslim we shouldn't be money focused. Be legacy driven and use money as a scorecard so as a resource to have scale up your legacy building. KFC spend 1,000s promoting a burger, how much do you spend on spreading Islam? Be forward thinking." - Aaqib Ahmed

Prophet Muhammad (saw) was an entrepreneur. He married Khadijah (RA) who was a very successful businesswoman. They were both trustworthy and honest. They were hereafter focused and achieved a lot in this life too.
 
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“I lose sleep at night with how many secrets of the universe lay undiscovered because 1.3 billion Muslims, who in an ancestral time, would have participated in this enterprise, that are now not. It’s in the cultural heritage - all we are asking is to resurrect it.” - Neil De Grasse Tyson
 
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"As Muslims our primary goal should be to please Allah whatever we do, whether read Qur'an or sweep the floor." - Saiyyidah Zaidi

"Don't blame your lack of success on Allah's Qadr alone. Did you tie your camel and make all the effort and duas that you could have (in order that He would have decreed it for you?" - Saiyyidah Zaidi

"I am an entrepreneur. I create. I take risks. I aim for excellence." - Saiyyidah Zaidi

"Don't spend time trying to impress people. Spend time helping people." - Saiyyidah Zaidi

"...Honestly if you were to ask me, I would say that I live the life of a millionaire right now but does it mean I am millionaire? I choose when to get up, how to spend my time. If we want to take off 3 months and go travelling then we can do it because of some of the things we set up and it doesn’t need to extravagant.” - Saiyyidah Zaidi
 
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"The most amazing thing about life for me is that you have no idea what happens next." - Maruf Yusupov

"Allah swt has an incredible way of giving us a day to stay home and enjoy our families." - Fatima Omar

"Break free from the status quo." - Haroon Qureshi

"If money wasn't a hurdle, what would you love to achieve with your passion? Nowadays you don't actually need money to succeed. When I first started online, all I had was a dream, passion and vision. Get started." - Aaqib Ahmed

“Being rich is not the issue – it is what you do with it” - Haroon Qureshi

“When you look at the seerah, the people closest to the Prophet (saw) were all entrepreneurs!” - Haroon Qureshi

“Other people have already made the mistakes – learn from them” - Haroon Qureshi
 
“… now we think to be humble we have to think low of yourself so guess what? If you think that you are stupid, if you think that are dumb, if you think that you can’t do anything then you are not going to do anything with your life. The entire ummah is thinking like that, the entire world is going to do nothing and when we look around the world today, the Muslims are not leading in any fields. It’s because we don’t have the confidence to lead, we are killing each others confidence.” – Abu Muawiyah
 
“I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you’re not going to be a teenager forever!” – Sabirul Islam

“I don’t want to look too far ahead. The journey is what’s happening right now, not what’s on the finishing line.” – Sabirul Islam

“Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up.” – Emil Motycka
 
"Store your wealth where no worms will eat it, where it cannot be reached by thieves. Store it in sadaqah." - Abdullah ibn Mas'ood (RA)

“Money in our time is like a weapon.” - Sufyan al-Thawri

“I don’t like to see an idle man: he does not act neither for his well-being in this life, neither for his future in the hereafter.” - Abdullah Ibn Mas’oud

“The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.” - Hasan al Basri
 
Good actions are a guard againgst the blows of adversity.
– Hazrat Abu Bakr As-Siddique (RA)
 
Lead such a life that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.”
– Hazrat Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA)
 
“You do have control, you have dua.” - Muhammad Al Shareef

“I am going to do this and this. – whoeee you can’t do all that! – You just watch me.” - Muhammad Al Shareef

"There is an INTENSE emotional blame on money as being the cause of our problems. Money is just a magnifier of what's in our hearts. If our hearts are sincere, money will magnify the good we can do. If our hearts are corrupt, money will magnify the harm we might do." - Muhammad Alshareef

"When people make excuses, I HATE excuses." - Muhammad Alshareef

"We're either going to become the MASTERS of our money, or we're going to become the SLAVES." - Muhammad Alshareef.
 
"If you want something in your life and you aren't praying tahajud for it then in reality you don't really want it." - Shaykh Yasir Qadhi

"Ignore the critics and do quality work." - Yasir Qadhi

"The one who gives more, receives more." - Yasir Qadhi

"Let the Wall Street protestors benefit from the Quranic message as well: "..so that wealth is not just circulated amongst your rich" (59:7)" - Yasir Qadhi

"I don't care how poor someone thinks he is - if he has a loving family, he is rich beyond measure." - Yasir Qadhi

"Knowledge is better than money: knowledge protects you, while you must protect your money." - Yasir Qadhi
 
“We sometimes just have to let things be.

There are times in life that things happen, and we just cannot control them. There are times when we don't want things to happen, but they do. Things that we don't want to know, we learn. Times in which people we can't live without, we have to let go.

The greatest learning is accepting what has, what is, and what will be. Remaining focussed on where we want to go, and how we want to get there. It might not go the way we planned, or the way we hoped it would be. No one said life would be easy, but at least we keep trying, and working hard at making it the best life it can be.”

- Aisha Mirza
 
"Be the person a younger girl looks up to and says, 'I can do this, because she's done it.'" - Shazia Saleem

‘Life is about so much more than fulfilling your dreams. It’s about fulfilling your spiritual purpose on earth. Don’t miss this opportunity. You won’t get another.’
—from the journal of Umm Zakiyyah

"It's 2025. What have you done in the last 10 years? InshaAllah, I would love to say: I helped inspire an entire generation of Muslims to be creative thinkers, been responsible for some of the Ummah's most loved brands, products & experiences, and helped make Islam cool & fun to young people globally. Dream big friends" - Peter Gould

“A wise man once said, a candle illuminates but light focused is a laser and a laser cuts through steel…. This is what the vision does, it focuses us. It tells us who we are, it tells us who we are not, it tells us why we do what we do, why we do not… Having vision is very addiction. Once you get it, you will hate to live a day without it. This is what makes a visionary different to a person who isn’t”. - Shiekh Sajid Umar
 
"Having free will means we have the power to change the areas of our lives that we're not happy with, including our finances!"

"Allah can take everything away in an instance, so be grateful and use what He gave you to please Him."

"The thing about school is that it's designed to develop us academically and professionally, but not financially."

"Money is nothing more than a resource. All it does is give you an opportunity to act on what's already inside of you."

"If you want to become wealthy and want your wealth to last, you need to have the right intentions."

"Getting paid a lucrative salary or an average salary is no different at the end of the day because you're still an employee. That means, by definition, you're still working to make someone else rich."

Above quotes from the book "The 5 deadly money myths that keep most Muslims poor"
 
"The believer is like Rain, wherever he goes he brings Goodness" - [Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ]

Abu Umamah reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “O son of Adam, it is better for you to spend in charity and to withhold is evil for you, but there is no blame if you withhold for necessary living. Begin with your dependents, and the upper hand that gives is better than the lower hand that takes.”
[Sahih Muslim 1036]

"Actions are but by intention and every man shall have only that which he intended..."
[Bukhari and Muslim]

Narrated by Abdullah Bin Mas'ud (RA):
Allah's Apostle said, "Do not wish to be like anyone except in two cases: the one whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it righteously, and the one whom Allah has given wisdom and he acts accordingly."
[Sahih Bukhari, Fateh-al-Bari page 177 Vol. 1]

“There was a merchant who would lend to the people, and whenever his debtor was in difficult circumstances, he would say to his employees, ‘Forgive him so that God may forgive us.’ So, God forgave him.”
[Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 292]

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: ” A man’s work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction.”
[Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 846]
 
Subhan Allah! I have been following many of these people, i.e. Yasir Qadhi, Mohd AlShareef, Sayyidah Zaidi, Aaqib Ahmed and Fatima Omar. Masha Allah such a great collection of quotes by them.

Very inspirational for entrepreneurs like us. Jazak Allah Khair Farhan.
 

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