Khalid Ibn Al-Walid Quotes

“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“When I am in the battlefield, I love it more then my wedding night with the most beautiful of women”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“May the eyes of cowards never sleep”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

“Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.”

— Khalid Ibn Al-Walid