Revive Your Heart Quotes

“The first thing I would like to share with you
here is that when you help people, you don’t wait
around until they say thank you because you didn’t
help them so you can hear appreciation.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“So we have to internalize a very powerful reality that Allah has given us. We treasure all of our relationships so long as, they are something that is building us towards the akhirah (the afterlife). So I want to leave you with this picture, what Allah has in His possession is better.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“appreciate what Allah has given you, then Allah will take care of you!”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“My Master, no doubt about it, whatever good you have sent down my way, whatever you have descended—sent down towards me—of any kind of good; no doubt about it, I am desperately in need of it’.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“The thing we have to remember in making duʿā’ is: first of all, we’re not in a position to place orders. Secondly: whatever I’m asking for yā Allāh, if this is good for me, give me and if not, I trust your decision.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“I want to make sure we understand in this reminder what duʿā’ is not? Duʿā’ is not placing an order at a restaurant. Duʿā’ is not placing an order for a product. When you place an order, you pay something and you get what you expected. You place an order for French fries; you’re not supposed to get a burger. You’re supposed to get French fries. When you place an order for a laptop, you’re not supposed to get a phone in the mail. You get what you ordered, and when you order something you obviously pay for it. You paid for it, so you’re expecting what you paid for. When you and I make duʿā’, we pay nothing. We pay nothing. When you pay nothing, then you have no expectations, you have no right to complain about what you get. You don’t get to say, ‘Hey! Wait, I asked for a hundred on my exam. I made duʿā’ last night. I still got a forty. What is this Allah? I placed the right order!’ You and I don’t get to do that. Allah is not here to serve you and me as customers. We’re used to customer service in this world. We are used to it so much that we think the way we are going to deal with Allah, is the same. Some of the young people today; unfortunately, their relationship with their parents has become like their parents are supposed to provide them customer service. ‘Mum, I asked you to buy me Grand Theft Auto! How come you didn’t get it yet?’, ‘I told you I’m going to do my homework!’ Like your homework is payment or something, right? Because we feel so entitled all the time, we bring this entitled attitude when we turn to Allah and we make duʿā’ to Him. ‘Yā Allāh, heal me.’ ‘Yā Allāh, get me a promotion.’ ‘Yā Allāh, do this for me or do that for me.’ And it doesn’t happen; and you’re like: ‘Forget this, I don’t need prayer. I even took the time out to pray and He didn’t give!”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Toprağa ekileceğiz ve hasat zamanı gelecek. Hasat zamanı hesap günüdür.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Boş vaktimizi beleş zamanlar olarak görüyor, şimdilik bir ödemede bulunmuyoruz, ama bir gün onun için Allah'ın huzurunda ödemede bulunacağız. Bir bedeli var. Bir gün onun için ödemede bulunacağımızın farkında değiliz. He şey kayda geçiriliyor.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“The dīn is about giving sincere counsel”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“The Muslim ummah is experiencing crises of religious identity, with its global image being hijacked by violent groups.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“we are constantly being ‘exhorted’ to consume.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“The believer recognizes that whatever Allah gives you, whatever food He put on the table, whatever job you found, whatever business your doing—not only is it good enough; you desperately needed it.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Rabbī innī limā anzalta ilayya min khayrin faqīr:”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“When you don’t appreciate a daughter, it’s like you’re not appreciating your own mother, that’s where you came from.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Don’t just wear your faith on your sleeve. Don’t just call yourself a Muslim and not represent any of its teachings. You’re not going to get away with that. This faith of ours isn’t just a declaration, it has to be a lifestyle choice.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“I think I know what’s best, but Allah actually knows what’s best. I think that getting better is best. I think that getting that job is the best. I think that this difficulty if I can get out of it, it’s the best. But Allah knows, way better than I know. He knows way better than I know. I make duʿā’ based on what I think is best—that’s what I can do as a human being. I will only ask Allah based on the limited knowledge that I have, but thankfully Allah knows better than you and me and everybody else so He will answer based on perfect knowledge. And maybe the best thing for you is that He does not answer right away, that He does not give you what you are asking for right away.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“In other words when I leave the matter to Allah, Allah is as worried about this, if not more, than I am. Allah is not some other that I am asking; Allah is sharing with me in this matter. Allah is actually a part of this situation. Whatever I am feeling, Allah knows better than even I know. If I care about something, I should know that I have made tafwīḍ of Allah, which means not only do I trust Allah with whatever He does, I know Allah cares about what I am asking Him. It’s not like He doesn’t care. Nobody gets to say Allah doesn’t care just because Allah doesn’t answer the way you and I expected.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

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― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Sūrat al-ʿAṣr is not about attaining success. It’s not a surah that teaches Muslims how to become successful; it actually teaches Muslims how not to become failures.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“When people are offering you help, that might be from Allah, that might be the answer to your duʿā’.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“What is between this Master of ours and us? The thing that ties us together, the thing that gives us a relationship is actually duʿā’, itself.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“None of us gives up on the other one. None of us says about the other one”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Eğer beni Allah'a hazırlamıyor, O'na yaklaştırmıyor ve beni O'nun kulu kılmıyorsa; bütün bu planlar anlamsız ve kıymetsizdir, birer başarı sayılmazlar.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Dünyanın bize ettiklerinden şikayetlenmeyi bırakmanın tam zamanı. Biz tevhid ehli insanlarız. Allah'In inayeti her türlü sorundan daha üstündür. Allah sizin tarafınızda olduğunda hiçbir problem çok büyük değildir. Asıl problem bizim Allah'ın yardımını istemiyor olmamız; hatta kazanmak gibi bir telaşımız dahi yok. Allah'ın yardımı bedavaya üzerimize inmez, sizin onu üzerinize çekmeniz gerekir.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Öfke ateşini söndürmenin yolu, Resulullah'ın örnekliğini tatbik etmekten geçer.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Duru bir niyetle biri için iyilik yaparken kazancını sadece Allah'tan umar ve O'nunla konuşursak, o zaman Allah'ın bizim üzerimizdeki nimetleri hayal edemeyeceğimiz kadar artacak.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Her şeyden önce iyice anlamamız gereken ilk nokta sipariş verme konumunda olmadığımız. İkinci olarak, "her ne istiyorsam ey Allah'ım, eğer benim hayrıma ise bana nasip eyle, değilse, ben Senin kararına güveniyorum." tavrını takınmamız gerektiği.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective

“Duygularınızı bastırarak beklemeye sabır denmez. Aslında içinizde biriktirdiğiniz şey barut tozudur ve en sonunda patlar. En sonunda çok üzücü bir şekilde o şişeden dışarı çıkar.”
― Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart: Putting Life in Perspective