WIST

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
(Attributed)

Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
(Attributed)
Quoted in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal (1845), at the opening of the Concord Free Library (CPL 11.504 13)

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1011

“What is the best type of Jihad [struggle]?” He answered: “Speaking truth before a tyrannical ruler.”

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
Hadith, Riyadh us-Saleheen, vol. 1:195

Kindness is the mark of faith; and whoever has not kindness has not faith.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Mohammed, 254
tr. Abdullah Al-Suhrawardy, 1941

You shall not enter Paradise until you have faith, and you will not complete your faith until you love one another.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Muhammad, #176 [tr. al-Suhrawardy (1941)]

Paradise is nearer you than the thongs of your sandals, and the Fire likewise.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Muhammad, #224 [tr. Al-Suhrawardy (1941)]

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among friends and an armor against enemies.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Muhammad, #290 [tr. Al-Suhrawardy (1941)]

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Muhammed, #238 [tr. Al-Suhrawardy]

To do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you, and to reject for others what you would reject for yourself.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
The Sayings of Muhammed, 138 [tr. Al-Suhrawardy (1941)]
See also the Bible, Matthew 7:12.

Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari, vol. 9, #473

The best among you are those who are best to their wives.

Mohammed (570-632) Founder of Islam
Narrated in Ibn Majah, #1978, and Al-Tirmizi, #3895