Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen was born on 9-March 1925, Unaizah, Saudi Arabia and passed away on 11-January 2001, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was a Islamic scholar based in Saudi Arabia. He is also known as also known as Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthamin or Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen.
Some quotes by Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen are as follows:
“When a person is content with what Allah has given him, he will remain rich.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen, (Rahimahullah)
“Success is not that you are successful with anything in this worldly life (Dunya), rather success is that you are saved from the hell-fire and that you enter paradise.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen, (Rahimahullah)
“Whoever leave something for Allah, Allah will replace it with something better.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Be firm and don’t change because of the large number of attacks on you nor due to (people) being offended by your words.”- Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Whenever a person increases in knowledge of Quran his fear of Allah increases.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“It is haram to think badly of a muslim who appears outwardly to be a good character.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah
“it’s bidaa to recite Quran on the dead before or after burying them.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah) // Making duaa for them is better
“When Allah knows that a person does not want the truth, He misguides his heart.” —Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“There is no difference between plucking, shaving and cutting the eyebrow. They are all haram (forbidden in Islam).” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“Mawlid has NO BASIS (in Islam), if it was legislated by Allah then the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) would have celebrated it or he would have conveyed it to his Ummah.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“It is not permissible for a person to wear clothes on which there is an image of an animal or a person.” Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“Sleeping is a blessing from Allah as it renews energy and cures tiredness.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“Whatever hardship befalls you is due to your sins and turning away from Allah.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“there is no use in arguing with an arrogant because he will not accept the truth at any cost.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“Every time things become difficult for you, wait for the relief.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (Rahimahullah)
“We didn’t appear in this worldly life to live in it like grazing animals and merely eat, drink and sleep. Rather, we came to this dunya (the worldly life) in order to prepare provisions for the hereafter.” – Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (May Allah be pleased with him)
“Don’t hate a thing which Allah has chosen for you, certainly whatever Allah has chosen for you has a great benefit which you don’t know about.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“From the greatest means for the heart to be upright and to have security is by reading the Quran a lot.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Success is not that you are successful with anything in this Dunya, rather success is that you are saved from the fire and enter Paradise.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Every time a person increases in obedience to Allah, He opens up doors of knowledge and Eeman for him which He does not open up for anyone else.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“If you find the Sunnah to be a burden, know that your heart is sick.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“No matter how much you seek from the doctors to remove that which you have in your heart.. You will never find anything like the Quran.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Whoever speaks a word of kufr, even in jest, has disbelieved.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah) // Allah says in Quran, “And if you ask them they will surely say, “We were only conversing and playing.” Say, “It is Allah and his verses and his messenger that you were mocking?” Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief.- [Quran, 9:65-66]
“If you want your wealth to increase and your sins to be forgiven, then you should give forth in charity.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“A woman’s labour pain removes sins from her and she is rewarded for hardship.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“The difference between a Sadaqah, gifts and grants:
Sadaqah: is money spent hoping for the reward of the Hereafter.
A gift: is money spent as a means of increasing love and getting closer in relation between the one gifting and the one being gifted.
A grant: is money given to benefit the one it is given to.” – Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen(rahimahullah)
“Everyone, no matter what level they have reached, is in need of Allah for guidance, so let no one say. ‘I’ am a scholar, Yes ‘I’ am a worshiper of Allah,’ thereby relying on himself and being conceited, he must instead recognize the extent of Allah’s blessing on him in terms of the guidance that he has given him, for how many people there are whom has misguided despite of their strength and intellect.” – Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“No matter how much you seek from the doctors to remove that which you have in your heart you will never find anything like the Quran.” – Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen(rahimahullah)
“If a person insults his brother about anything perhaps Allah will relief /cure the insulted one then Allah afflicts the insulator (the person doing insulting).” – Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Woe to every unjust husband. An example of this is the husband who wants from his wife that she gives him all of his rights in full and he is not lenient. But when it is time to give his wife then he is lackadaisical and does not give her that which is due to her.” – Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“If you see your brother debating and disputing when the truth is clear and he does not want to follow it, you should flee from him in the same way as you flee from a lion. Tell him that you have nothing more than that to say to him, and let him be.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“Do not be someone who is (physically present but mentally) missing (or absent) from his family, neither enjoining upon them what is good and righteousness, nor forbidding them from evil and corruption.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“The biggest sign that you love Allah’s Messenger, (sallaAllahu alayhi wa salam), is that you chose his Sunnah over your desires.” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“If a person insults his brother about anything perhaps Allah will relief/cure the insulted one, then Allah afflicts the insulter (the person doing the insulting).” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullah)
“When [Every individual thing], all of it belongs to Allah, If He were to take something from you, it is something that belongs to him, and if He were to give you something, it is something that belongs to Him, how can you get angry and detest[it when something is taken]?!” – Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen // Don’t do anger over loss
“The siraat is a bridge that will be set up over Hell; it is narrower than a hair and sharper than a sword. People will pass over it according to their deeds. Whoever used to hasten to do good deeds in this world will pass quickly over the siraat; whoever was slow to do good deeds and whoever used to mix righteous deeds with bad deeds, and his bad deeds were not forgiven by Allah, may slip into the Fire; may Allah protect us.
People will vary in the ways in which they pass over the siraat. Some will pass in the blink of an eye, some will pass like lightning, some will pass like the wind, some will pass like swift horses, some will pass like fast camels, some will walk, some will crawl, and some will be thrown into Hell. No one will pass over this siraat except the believers only. As for the disbelievers, they will not pass over it, because on the Day of Resurrection they will be driven directly to Hell.
Sharh Riyaadh as-Saaliheen (1/470)
