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

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

God helps those who fear Him.

Where do you go when you don’t even know where the danger is coming from?

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.