You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you..

In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long, it is patie….

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate..

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me..

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness..

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves..

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the ….

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit..

Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beau….

A man of bad character punishes his own soul..

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls..

If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second prem….

If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intenti….

Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices duri….

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to H….

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then..

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual..

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses..

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell..

Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secr….

Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge..