“Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.”

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

Mom used to frame everything we made, and now I’m following her example. It makes children so proud to see their work on display instead of hidden away.

Our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature’s record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on ‘MythBusters,’

In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover my hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love selding a weary lover

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden.

Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings

Just to p-s you off, that’s why! I got spoons hidden all over this house! Keep it up, and your napkin rings are gonna start disappearing.’

And when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.