Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
If you’re busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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.
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.
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 Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned”
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 secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.
Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.