Qur’an verses and hadith about success
Falāḥ — success measured the way these passages measure it, which is rarely the way the word is used elsewhere. Each one carries its full source and a short explanation of what it was answering.
- The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer, while there is good in both.Sahih Muslim 2664
- Tie your camel and then put your trust in Allah.Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2517
- Actions are but by intentions, and every person will have only what he intended.Sahih al-Bukhari 1
- Take advantage of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your busyness, and your life before your death.al-Mustadrak al-Hakim 7846
- Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is his leaving what does not concern him.Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2317
- Richness is not in having many possessions; rather, true richness is the richness of the soul.Sahih al-Bukhari 6446
- The best of people are those most beneficial to people.al-Tabarani
- Be truthful, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to Paradise.Sahih al-Bukhari 6094
- The strong man is not the one who overpowers others; the strong man is the one who controls himself at the time of anger.Sahih al-Bukhari 6114
- No one humbles himself for the sake of Allah except that Allah raises him.Sahih Muslim 2588
- Whoever plants thorns will not reap grapes from them.Arabic proverb
- Time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it will cut you.Arabic proverb
- In deliberation there is safety, and in haste there is regret.Arabic proverb
- Whoever seeks something will find it — and if he does not find it, he will soon land close to it.Arabic proverb
- Contentment is wealth that never runs out.Arabic proverb
- Whoever walks the path will arrive.Arabic proverb
- Whoever keeps knocking at the door will soon have it opened.Arabic proverb
- A good name is better than riches.Arabic proverb
- Heights are earned in proportion to effort, and whoever seeks the heights stays awake through the nights.Imam al-Shafii (Diwan)
- Movement is a blessing.Arabic proverb
- Ask the one with experience rather than the one with only knowledge.Arabic proverb
- The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.Arabic proverb
- So do not weaken and do not grieve.Quran 3:139
- He has succeeded who purifies himself, and mentions the name of his Lord and prays.Quran 87:14-15
- Whoever desires the reward of this world - We will give him of it; and whoever desires the reward of the Hereafter - We will give him of it. And We will reward the grateful.Quran 3:145
- Seek, through that which Allah has given you, the home of the Hereafter; and do not forget your share of the world. And do good, as Allah has done good to you.Quran 28:77
- And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord, and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous.Quran 3:133
- When you have decided, then rely upon Allah. Indeed, Allah loves those who rely upon Him.Quran 3:159
- If Allah should aid you, no one can overcome you.Quran 3:160
- Certainly will the believers have succeeded: they who are during their prayer humbly submissive.Quran 23:1-2
- Bow and prostrate and worship your Lord, and do good, that you may succeed.Quran 22:77
- Whoever desires this world must seek knowledge, and whoever desires the Hereafter must seek knowledge.Imam al-Shafii
- Hold yourselves to account before you are held to account, and weigh yourselves before you are weighed.Umar ibn al-Khattab
- A deed is not accepted unless it is sincere and correct: sincere, done for Allah alone, and correct, in accordance with the Sunnah.al-Fudayl ibn Iyad
- I have never struggled with anything harder than my own intention, for it keeps turning over on me.Sufyan al-Thawri
- Travel, and you will find a replacement for what you leave behind; strive, for the sweetness of life is in striving.Imam al-Shafii (Diwan)
- Wasting time is worse than death, because wasting time cuts you off from Allah and the Home of the Hereafter, while death cuts you off from this world and its people.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- I have seen most people kill time in the strangest ways… I likened them to people chatting on a ship that is carrying them along, unaware of it.Ibn al-Jawzi (Sayd al-Khatir)
- I knew people who were more tight-fisted with their lifetimes than with their dirhams and dinars.al-Hasan al-Basri
- The world is three days: yesterday, which has gone with all it held; tomorrow, which you may never reach; and today — so work in it.al-Hasan al-Basri
- When evening comes, do not wait for the morning; when morning comes, do not wait for the evening. Take from your health for your illness, and from your life for your death.Abdullah ibn Umar
- I searched for a goal that all people agree is good and all people pursue, and I found only one: driving away worry.Ibn Hazm (al-Akhlaq wa al-Siyar)
- Whoever imagines he can escape people’s criticism and fault-finding is out of his mind.Ibn Hazm (al-Akhlaq wa al-Siyar)
- The approval of people is a goal that can never be reached. So hold fast to what sets you right, for there is no path to pleasing them.Imam al-Shafii
- Leaving a deed because of people is showing off, doing a deed for people is shirk, and sincerity is that Allah frees you from both.al-Fudayl ibn Iyad
- The rarest thing in this world is sincerity. How hard I work to clear showing off from my heart — and it seems to grow back in another colour.Yusuf ibn al-Husayn al-Razi
- Sincerity cannot come together in a heart with the love of praise and craving for what people have, any more than water and fire, or the desert lizard and the fish.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- Many a small deed is made great by its intention, and many a great deed is made small by its intention.Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
- Resisting a desire is easier than bearing what the desire brings with it.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- Every person’s worth is what they do well.Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Some drowsiness of heedlessness and some sleep of desire are unavoidable — but be a light sleeper.Ibn al-Qayyim (al-Fawaid)
- Whoever guards Allah’s limits in his youth and strength, Allah will guard him in his old age and weakness.Ibn Rajab (Jami al-Ulum wa al-Hikam)
- Hearts have times of eagerness and turning towards, and times of weariness and turning away. So make the most of them when they are eager, and leave them be when they are weary.Abdullah ibn Masud