“A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.”

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated.

What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

They silenced her tongue, for they feared how sharp it might cut them.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

My greatest fear is that I’ll fail my kids.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Hate comes from Intimidation. Love comes from Appreciation.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.