To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
Don’t forget your own self while preaching to others.
Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.
He who wins through fraud is not a winner.
Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.
He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.
The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.
Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
Do not put off today’s work for tomorrow.
Let not your love become attachment, nor your hate become destruction.
When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Forgive people so that Allah may forgive you.
Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
Do not be misled by hearing of anyone’s reputation.
O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.