84 Quotes by Umar

Who do you think’s better looking people in the north or people in the south?

Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.

Do not be misled by hearing of anyone’s reputation.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

What regresses, never progresses.

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.