Ali El-Tantawy
Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi is a Syrian writer, jurist, and judge. He was born in Damascus in the year 1909 AD. He is from a family whose sons were known for their knowledge. He is considered one of the first to combine the study between receiving from sheikhs and studying in regular schools. Here in this article we will mention to you the sayings of Sheikh Ali al-Tantawi.
Sayings of Ali Tantawi
- When pleasure becomes a duty, it loses its beauty. This is the nature of the human soul.
- If an order has been completed, it seems lacking, expect its demise, if it is said that it has been completed.
- Literature does not have a truth like the scientific truth, but it has relative truths.
- The whole world is a false dream: love, money, health, happiness and glory.. Nothing of that is eternal and does not remain.
- Democracy is a Greek word made up of two words: (demos) meaning the people, and (chairs) meaning rule, meaning the rule of the people.
- What comes out of the heart enters the heart, and what comes out of the tongue does not go beyond the ears.
- Iraq sleeps but does not die.
- Science is the goal of truth, its means is thought, and its tool is logic, and art is its goal is beauty, its means is feeling, and its tool is taste.
- The judiciary is the measure of goodness in nations, and it is the measure of greatness in them, and it is the head of the glories of every living and adult nation.
- Oh God, blessed be our Lord. The kingdom belongs to you, and the command is yours, and there is no complaint except to you, and there is no good except from you.
- What is meant is that we become accustomed to order and discipline in all our actions, and not to be afflicted with the plague of delay, procrastination, and breach of appointments.
- The mosque is the home of every Muslim.
- The Muslim is the one who knows that Islam is not similar to other religions and cannot be measured against them, because it is a religion, law, politics and morals.
- If people of high determination descend the mountain from one side, they try to climb it from the other side.
- The psychological life is like a merchant’s book. It is not the hugeness of its numbers that counts, but rather the rest after addition and subtraction.
- The Islamic bond is a bond (but the believers are brothers) is one of the greatest miracles of Islam.
- Life is not measured by the length of years, but by the breadth of events.
- People die for faith, and faith never died for human life.
- The door of reform is in front of you, my daughter, and the key to it is in your hand.
- A person's life is not measured by the length of years, but by the breadth of events.
- The memory of pleasure is painful, and the memory of pain is not pleasant.
- That everything in this life is invalid except the remembrance of God and work for the afterlife.
- The homeland of a Muslim is his religion, so wherever the muezzin shouts, God is great, there is his homeland.
- I am not humble enough to deprive myself of her rights, nor am I arrogant until I claim for her what is not in her.
- Isn't it one of the greatest blessings for a person to forget? If it weren't for forgetfulness, life would be unbearable.
- With gratitude, blessings last, with sincerity, nations remain, and with disobedience, they perish and perish.
- A person's life is not measured by the (length) of years, but by the (width) of events.
- The renewal was lost if the renewal was an apostasy from the religion.
- Glory be to He who made satisfaction with God a crown to be placed on the heads of the believers who are satisfied with God’s will and destiny.
- Go back to the etiquette of Islam, for in Islam there is goodness, justice, truth, victory and glory.
- I wish the person did not remember, so why did he suffer.
- We used to crave something and not find it, but when we found it, we lost our appetite.
- Neither the home is a home nor the residents are residents.
- Do not be deceived by the softness of the ax, and do not be deceived by the roughness of the wood, for the ax, despite its smoothness, cuts the hardest wood despite its roughness.
- There is no greater, happier, or more lasting value than being with God in all your circumstances while He guides you and pleases you.
- I am neither a communist nor a socialist, but I am a human being and a Muslim.
- There is no work in this world that does not include Islam and clarifies the judgment of God.
- Yourself is a wondrous world that changes every moment and changes and does not settle in any case.
- And the burial of the heart will live if the past called him, and he was permitted to enter, and he rose to receive him.
- Likewise, faith, if it descends into a woman's heart, makes her an invincible hero, and what is surprising is what faith does.
- And the believer does not raise a desire in his soul, but he extinguishes it with the rivers of Paradise, or he burns it with the fire of Hell, so he is relieved from it.
- Perhaps a dress that, in your opinion, is old and outdated, if you gave it to someone else, he would see it as a holiday dress.
- And what about the language of love, other than (I love you) and (I love you).. Repeat it a hundred times, for you are sleeping.
- O young Muslims, create the morals of Islam and spread it among people and save the world with it.
- He who has daughters, do not reject a good suitor if he comes to you, and do not burden him with demands.
- Woe to those who think that literature is nothing more than lust wrapped in the mantle of art.
- Why does the old man cry over his youth and the young man does not laugh at his youth?
- When our morals are reformed, and our Arab essence returns to its purity and purification, and its impurities are washed away from it, we will restore Palestine, and we will restore the king of our ancestors.
- When will the day come when we speak words of honour, promise the truth, and our lives are based on exhorting the truth?
- We consider wealth by money alone, and what is money alone.. Don't you appreciate the price of health.. As for health, there is a price.
- Everyone cries over his past and yearns for it, so why don't we think about the present before it becomes the past.
- There is something in existence that is stronger than iron, sharper than the sword, hotter than fire, and more powerful than the atomic bomb, which is faith.
- There is nothing in this world that is more worthy or more beautiful than prayer.
- Islam was not in the Arabs, but the Arabs were in Islam.
- If you want happiness, do not look to the one to whom more has been allocated than you, but to the one to whom less has been allocated.
- Start reforming morals, for it is the first path.
- Nothing is sweeter than steadfastness in opinion, except to return to what is better than it.
- A person's life is not measured by the length of years, but by the breadth of events.
- Military colonialism has ended, but we have been afflicted with an even worse colonization, which is intellectual and social colonialism.
- Truth has a scent that is not smelled by the nose but felt by the hearts.
- Do not say that scholars are clerics, and do not burden them with the duties of religion alone, for clerics are all Muslims.
- Everything is by God’s decree, and God has divided for the servant his happiness, his misery, his sustenance, and his life.
- If you want to taste the most beautiful pleasures in this world, and the sweetest joys of hearts, then give love as you give money.
- The heart of a woman and a poet are never separated from their youth.
- I define intelligence as the speed of judgment and reason as the correctness of judgment.
- Does the future remain a future if I convey it, or does it become present and I have to convey another future?
- I do not know a nation in the world whose language is as ignorant as the children of the Arabs in the language of the Arabs.
- And if a nation is enslaved, then in her hand is the key to her chains as long as she preserves her religion and language.
- Whatever the future is unknown, open your eyes to dreams and ambition, for tomorrow is a new day, and tomorrow you are a new person.
- There is nothing in love.. There is no way for lovers.. The way is for those who forget their religion in love, lose their character, or destroy their manhood.
- The pleasures of the world are like a mirage. Do you not know a mirage.. You see it from afar, treacherous, and if you come to it, you will find nothing but the desert. It is water, but from afar.
- I do not get tired because I love my work, and whoever loves his work does not get tired even if he deprives him of his usual rest and prevents him from eating and sleeping.
- Islam does not oppose true science, useful art, or benevolent civilization, and it is an easy, spacious, and flexible religion.
- Indeed, among the smartest of criminals, if he were raised and taught, he would be one of the geniuses of the age.
- If a mother wants to reform her daughter, she must first reform herself.
- Marriage is based on compatibility in thinking, behavior, social status, and financial condition, and after all this comes passion.
- The heart is home to the two holiest things in existence, faith and love. According to the mind, it is rigid and incapacitated, because it cannot understand love and it cannot perceive faith.
- Repentance has a soul and a body. Its spirit is sensing the ugliness of sin, and its body is abstaining from it.
- Or did Islam make breaking a promise a sign of hypocrisy?
- I have read many books defining beauty, but I did not find anyone who defined Tagore: that beauty is sincerity.
- O you who know that after this world there is another world, and that after life there is death, and that there must be a pause for reckoning and walking on the path, repent from now and do not postpone repentance until tomorrow.
- Whoever repents of a sin while he is still staying on it or thinking of returning to it, then this is like mocking his Lord and God forbid.
