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

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.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly. When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.

I am hopelessly a lover and a dreamer and that will be the death of me.

You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.