“Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.”

“Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan... Our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.”

“Without Knowledge, action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

“O Allah, You know me better than I know myself, and I know myself better than these people who praise me. Make me better than what they think of me, and forgive those sins of mine of which they have no knowledge, and do not hold me responsible for what they say.”

“يتحاج إليكِ أكتر ما يحتاج لنفسه”

“Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is undone; and when one performs ablution, the second knot is undone, and when one prays the third knot is undone and one gets up energetic with a good heart in the morning; otherwise one gets up lazy and with a mischievous heart.”

“Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astrayJews wildered, Magians far on error's way.We mortals are composed of two great schoolsEnlightened knaves or else religious fools.”