Top 80 Umar Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.”

— Umar

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2. “Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future.”

— Umar

3. “Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.”

— Umar

4. “I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.”

— Umar

5. “No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.”

— Umar

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6. “Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.”

— Umar

7. “To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.”

— Umar

8. “Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.”

— Umar

9. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

10. “Do not put off today’s work for tomorrow.”

— Umar

11. “Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.”

— Umar

12. “Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.”

— Umar

13. “Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.”

— Umar

14. “Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.”

— Umar

15. “The person I like most is the one who points out my defects.”

— Umar

16. “Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.”

— Umar

17. “Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.”

— Umar

18. “Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.”

— Umar

19. “Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.”

— Umar

20. “I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.”

— Umar

21. “Be dignified, honest and truthful.”

— Umar

22. “To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.”

— Umar

23. “Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.”

— Umar

24. “He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.”

— Umar

25. “The less of the World, the freer you live.”

— Umar

26. “Don’t forget your own self while preaching to others.”

— Umar

27. “Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.”

— Umar

28. “If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.”

— Umar

29. “He who wins through fraud is not a winner.”

— Umar

30. “May Allah bless the man who says less and does more.”

— Umar

31. “Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.”

— Umar

32. “Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.”

— Umar

33. “There is no goodness in people who don’t give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don’t like to be advised.”

— Umar

34. “Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.”

— Umar

35. “As long as you are pure of heart, you speak the truth.”

— Umar

36. “Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.”

— Umar

37. “We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.”

— Umar

38. “Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.”

— Umar

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

— Umar

40. “That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.”

— Umar

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

— Umar

42. “To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.”

— Umar

43. “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.”

— Umar

44. “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.”

— Umar

45. “What regresses, never progresses.”

— Umar

46. “No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.”

— Umar

47. “Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.”

— Umar

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

— Umar

49. “Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.”

— Umar

50. “On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.”

— Umar