“Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.”

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

Don’t depend too much on anyone.

Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

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

When a man tells you, you’re too good for him, believe him.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

There’s still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I’m not trying to say I’m not happy with the novels I’ve written in the past. But it always feels to me like there’s another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.