Shocking Sayings
187 sayings found from the Medieval era
The upper hand is better than the lower hand (i.e., the one who gives is better than the one who takes).
Paradise lies under the feet of mothers.
Modesty is part of faith.
A believer is not stung twice from the same hole.
When you put on your shoes, begin with the right one, and when you take them off, begin with the left one.
Keep your women from the markets, lest they mix with the men.
Indeed, Allah does not look at your bodies or your forms, but He looks at your hearts and your deeds.
Do not enter the dwellings of those who wronged themselves, unless you enter weeping, lest you be afflicted by what afflicted them.
The prayer of a person who has had a sexual discharge is not accepted until he performs ablution (ghusl).
No one will enter Paradise who has in his heart a mustard seed's weight of arrogance.
The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture.
Do not dispute with your brother, nor joke with him, nor make a promise to him that you will not fulfill.
The best of dwellings is a spacious dwelling, and the best of riding animals is a swift one, and the best of women is one who is fertile and loving.
If a man gives his daughter in marriage while she is a virgin and she dislikes it, then the marriage is invalid.
Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him speak good or remain silent.
The greatest sin is to associate partners with Allah, and to kill a soul which Allah has forbidden, and to commit adultery, and to consume the property of an orphan.
There are two blessings which many people lose: health and free time.
As regards the last point, whether a woman is bound to obey her husband, it must be said that a woman is bound to obey her husband in those things which pertain to the ordering of the household, and to the upbringing of children, and to the managemen…
Woman is in some respects defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from a defect in the active force, or from some mater…
It is clear that the male is more noble than the female. For the male is the principle of generation, and the female is the matter.