If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps th…

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

- Abdullah Ibn Mubarak