Sleeplessness of the eye but for Thy sake is vain, Their crying but for Thy loss inane.
If Allah wants well for a slave, He strips away from his heart the ability to see his own good deeds and speaking about them with his tongue, and preoccupies him with seeing his own sin, and it continues to remain in front of his eyes until he enters Jannah. --- Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
“When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.”
Frithjof Schuon, Understanding Islam
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." --- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!” ― Charles Le Gai Eaton, King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World
One of the early Muslims dug a grave for himself and whenever he flagged in worship he would go into the grave and stretch himself out in its niche and say, "My self, suppose that you had died and gone in your grave: what would you hope for?" It said, "To return to this world and perform right actions in it." He told it, "You have obtained your hope! Raise and perform right actions!" --- Al-Wasiyyah - The Advice of the Esteemed Scholar Muwaffaq Ad-Din Ibn Qudama Al-Maqdisi
"It was only in the 20th century that the West started to develop international law. Grotius contributed only wishful thinking. In the West, international law existed only in the imagination until after World War I when the League of Nations was established. The present system of international law is far inferior to the Islamic system of international law because, under the Islamic system, the law of nations is backed by a court and not just a single court in the Hague. Any Shari'ah court in any part of the world can hear any international dispute to which the parties are not only nations but also individuals. If we want to solve international problems we must make justice under international law possible for everyone." --- Ismail al-Faruqi, Why Islam?